Active Directory authorization header
You use the HTTP Authorization request header to provide the authentication token for an AD user accessing HCP through the management API. The value of this header is AD
followed by the authentication token, in this format:
Authorization: AD authentication-token
For example, here’s the Authorization header for a user named lgreen
and password p4ssw0rd
:
Authorization: AD lgreen@example.com:p4ssw0rd
Specifying the Authorization header with HSwift
With cURL, you use the -H option to specify a header. So, for example, a request to list the tenants for the HCP system named example.hcp.com might look like this:
curl -v -X HEAD http://api.example.hcp.com/swift/v1/AUTH_6b6884ebb6f441cfbb7e740f6a927c9e -H "Authorization: AD lgreen@example.com:p4ssw0rd"
Specifying the authentication header in Python with PycURL
In Python with PycURL, you use the HTTPHEADER option to specify a header, as in this example:
curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: AD lgreen@example.com:p4ssw0rd"])