Trying to use 'Postman' and having trouble setting Basic access authentication Headers

Question

I have an API endpoint that I am trying to test with the google app: \'Postman\'. I need to set the headers which use \'Basic authentication\'. I am not sure what should go

Answer 1

Looks like you are facing trouble in getting the base64 value. Well you can make use of in-built function in Javscript as below.

Simply run below code in any JS runtime, (Simplest would be - open console tab in chrome developer tool)

"username:password!" // Here I used basic Auth string format

// Encode the plain string to base64
btoa("username:password!"); // output: "dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQh"


// Decode the base64 to plain string
atob("dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQh"); // output: "username:password!"