RESTful authentication

Media Push RESTful API requires REST authentication. The following REST authentication methods are available:

• Basic HTTP authentication

  Generate a Base64-encoded credential with the customer ID and customer secret provided by Agora and pass the credential with the Authorization parameter in the request header.

Implement basic HTTP authentication

Generate Customer ID and Customer Secret

To generate a set of customer ID and customer secret, do the following:

1. In Agora Console, click Developer Toolkit > RESTful API.

   

2. Click Add a secret, and click OK. A set of customer ID and customer secret is generated.

3. Click Download in the Customer Secret column. Read the pop-up window carefully, and save the downloaded key_and_secret.txt file in a secure location.

4. Use the customer ID (key) and customer secret (secret) to generate a Base64-encoded credential, and pass the Base64-encoded credential to the Authorization parameter in the HTTP request header.

You can download the customer secret from Agora Console only once. Be sure to keep it secure.

Generate an authorization header using a third-party tool

For testing and debugging, you can use a third-party online tool to quickly generate your Authorization header. Enter your Customer ID as the Username and your Customer Secret as the Password. Your generated header should look like this::

Authorization: Basic NDI1OTQ3N2I4MzYy...YwZjA=a

Basic authentication sample code

The following sample code implements basic HTTP authentication and sends a RESTful API request to get the basic information of all your current Agora projects.

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "strings"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
  "encoding/base64"
)

// HTTPS basic authentication example in Golang using the RTC SDK Server RESTful API
func main() {

  // Customer ID
  customerKey := "Your customer ID"
  // Customer secret
  customerSecret := "Your customer secret"

  // Concatenate customer key and customer secret and use base64 to encode the concatenated string
  plainCredentials := customerKey + ":" + customerSecret
  base64Credentials := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(plainCredentials))

  url := "https://api.agora.io/dev/v1/projects"
  method := "GET"

  payload := strings.NewReader(``)

  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  // Add Authorization header
  req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64Credentials)
  req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

  // Send HTTP request
  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}