API Testing Part 5 - Authentications using REST Assured

Next API testing video tutorial covers following topics -

How to specify auth?

Basic Auth

Preemptive basic auth

credentials are sent before server responds with unauthorised response.
reduces overhead of additional connection.

Challenged basic auth

credentials are supplied only when server asks for it.

Ex: https://www.httpwatch.com/httpgallery/authentication/

First post request

Ref: https://github.com/rest-assured/rest-assured/wiki/Usage

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