Understanding how APIs authenticate requests is crucial for securing your integrations and ensuring only authorized clients can access protected resources. Authrator supports an array of authentication schemes, empowering you to interact with both open and secured endpoints:
- No Auth: For public endpoints that do not require credentials.
- API Key: Pass static tokens in headers or query parameters (coming soon).
- Basic Auth: Standard username/password encoding in an Authorization header (coming soon).
- Bearer Token (JWT): Modern, stateless authentication via signed JSON Web Tokens.
- OAuth 2.0: Industry-standard authorization flows for delegated access (planned).
In this section, you’ll learn the principles of JWT-based Bearer authentication and how to leverage Authrator’s built‑in tools to generate, decode, and manage tokens.
