Basic Authentication Overview

To allow systems that cannot support a two-step auth process to report presence, the /basic endpoints accept basic authentication.

A specific API key that is enabled for basic authentication is required. This API key cannot be used with the /v1/auth endpoints.

Contact Calven support to request a basic auth API key.

On API requests with Basic authentication, typically a header with the following pattern is expected:

Authorization: Basic {userName}:{password}

On Calven endpoints with Basic auth, the apiKeyId is used in place of the username and apiSecret is used in place of the password. So the header would be formatted:

Authorization: Basic {apiKeyId}:{apiSecret}