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Adam_Hahn
9 years ago

Secure Transmission of API Passwords

Currently when communicating with the Logic Monitor API, passwords are required to be sent via Plaintext in the URL. This results in the username/password of the api account being intercepted anywh...
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Sarah_Terry
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9 years ago

All of our API requests are transmitted over SSL, so passwords are never sent in plaintext. Our new REST API, which we are starting to publish, uses Basic Authentication over SSL and will permit requests via POST.