Authenticate Your API Requests
Table of Contents
11.0 (EoL)
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- Upgrade a Firewall to the Latest PAN-OS Version (API)
- Show and Manage GlobalProtect Users (API)
- Query a Firewall from Panorama (API)
- Upgrade PAN-OS on Multiple HA Firewalls through Panorama (API)
- Automatically Check for and Install Content Updates (API)
- Enforce Policy using External Dynamic Lists and AutoFocus Artifacts (API)
- Configure SAML 2.0 Authentication (API)
- Quarantine Compromised Devices (API)
- Manage Certificates (API)
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- Asynchronous and Synchronous Requests to the PAN-OS XML API
- Run Operational Mode Commands (API)
- Apply User-ID Mapping and Populate Dynamic Groups (API)
- Get Version Info (API)
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- PAN-OS REST API
- Access the PAN-OS REST API
- Resource Methods and Query Parameters (REST API)
- PAN-OS REST API Request and Response Structure
- PAN-OS REST API Error Codes
- Work With Objects (REST API)
- Create a Security Policy Rule (REST API)
- Work with Policy Rules on Panorama (REST API)
- Create a Tag (REST API)
- Configure a Security Zone (REST API)
- Configure an SD-WAN Interface (REST API)
- Create an SD-WAN Policy Pre Rule (REST API)
- Configure an Ethernet Interface (REST API)
- Update a Virtual Router (REST API)
- Work With Decryption (APIs)
End-of-Life (EoL)
Authenticate Your API Requests
Authenticate your API Re quests for PAN-OS firewalls.
Palo Alto Networks encourages you to authenticate
your API requests by including a basic authentication token in the
header of your requests. The basic authentication header can be
used to authenticate both XML and REST API requests.
- Convert your user name and password to Base64 format.Example: username:password converts to dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=When making a request to the firewall, include the base64 converted token in the header preceded by Authorization: BasicExample:curl -X POST 'https://<firewall>/api?&type=config&action=get&xpath=/config/devices/entry[@name=%27localhost.localdomain%27]/network/interface/ethernet' -H 'Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ='Include the header in each of the subsequent requests to the firewall.