Can i secure an API by basic LDAP authentication (from a extranet Active Dir )?? Is there a way to configure inbound and outbound security for the API proxy ? As we are trying to swith from an internal application where the users are being validated against LDAP for accessing any existing services and a outbound security is in place as well. Trying to understand if we switch to apigee , will we able to have similar configurations and the allow consumers to not make any additional changes in their backend services to allow new authentication mechanism which Apigee provides.
Yes, you can use Apigee Edge to secure an API with basic authentication, wired up to an LDAP store.
Apigee Edge acts as a layer 7 proxy (aka gateway) in your architecture.
Clients can send requests to APigee Edge.
Apigee Edge can then optionally "do something" with the request to verify or authorize it, and if that step is successful, Apigee Edge can then invoke a new request on a designated backend (aka "upstream") system.
I think you are asking, as part of the "do something", can Apigee Edge verify basic auth credentials against an LDAP datastore.
Yes. That is one of the many things Apigee Edge could do to verify or authorize an inbound request. There are a couple things you should know.
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