Let's take a look at some concepts and terminology that you need to know in order to follow the use cases.
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An access token is a simple string that is passed as an HTTP header of a request. For example, "Authorization: Bearer NtBQkXoKElu0H1a1fQ0DWfo6IX4a." Access tokens authenticate API users and applications, and ensure better security (e.g., certain types of prevent DoS attacks. Note that DoS attacks coming to key manager with random access tokens can not be prevented, and DoS attacks with same fake acess token can affect the gateway as well). If a token that is passed with a request is invalid, the request is discarded in the first stage of processing. Access tokens work equally well for SOAP and REST calls.
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Cross-origin resource sharing ( CORS ) is a mechanism that allows restricted resources (e.g., fonts, JavaScript) of a Web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the resource originated.
The Swagger API Console that is integrated in the API Manager runs as a JavaScript client in the API Store and makes calls from the Store to the API Gateway. Therefore, if you have the API Store and Gateway running on different ports, enable CORS between them.
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<handlers> <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.security.CORSRequestHandler"/> </handlers> |
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OAuth scopes
Scopes enable fine-grained access control to API resources based on user roles. You define scopes to an API's resources. When a user invokes the API, his/her OAuth 2 bearer token cannot grant access to any API resource beyond its associated scopes.
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