Question: How to test an API with credentials?

[jhjacobs81]

Is it possible to test an api with credentials? so i can post my login details to /api/login and have it saved for future testing?

Or maybe i am overlooking something?

[jonrosner]

What kind of authentication system do you use? If you use something token based than you can simply store the token in an environment.

[jhjacobs81]

hello Jon, thank you for responding :)

currently i do this:
curl -c cookies.txt -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/login -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "Username": "user", "Password": "password" }'

which will generate a cookies.txt like this:
127.0.0.1:8080 FALSE / TRUE 1733555692 AppName MTczMDk2MzY5M3xEWDhFQVFMX2dBQUJFQUVRQUFBZl80QUFBUVp6ZEhKcGJtY01DUUFIZFhObGNsOXBaQVIxYVc1MEJnSUFHQT09fLtMohuQTYQ_xjDYdRxghTX1E_2NRVIyfgtvCnppCpbW

and then on subsequent request i do this:
curl -b cookies.txt -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/create -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "Username": "user1", "Password": "userpass" }'

its a session based webapp