how to handle backend credentional in wso2 api manager? - wso2-api-manager

I am using wso2 apimanager 3.2.0 and I am going to design some rest service that use my backend service. this backend service has basic authentication, so how to invoke and handle it in apim?

You can define endpoint security when you are developing the API the Endpoints section of the API in the Publisher portal.
For more information, see documentation.

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How to configure external Web Service (REST) for Authentication in WSO2?

I'm having separate Dotnet Web Service API to authenticate users. How can I configure it with WSO2 API Manager?
I have already configured WSO2 API Manager with external IDP (Keycloak). Is this is what im looking orcan be achieved in different way.
If you are looking for a way to replace your user store(LDAP/AD/JDBC), with your Dotnet service, you might want to write a new custom user store manager extending the CarbonRemoteUserStoreManger class. There, you should invoke your custom APIs to authenticate, retrieve users. Then you can add a secondary/primary user store with your custom user store manager implementation.
If you want to configure your Dotnet service as a Federated IdP in the API Manager server, you might have to write a Custom Federated Authenticator to communicate with your Dotnet service to authenticate the users. There you should be overriding the initiateAuthenticationRequest and processAuthenticationResponse.
Editing the answer with the new context on issue
In order to generate or validate tokens with an external party(Dotnet service), WSO2 needs to know the service contract of that service beforehand. How you fetch that information to the WSO2 APIM server is by writing an extension to the Key Manger service of the WSO2 APIM server.
By default WSO2 APIM has the implementation to talk to its own Key Manager component and the WSO2 Identity Server. But you need to write the logic (request/response templates) to validate tokens with your dotnet service. This is the official documentation for this. These two Medium posts as well are written on that topic.
Blog 1
Blog 2
Basically, you need to write a simple java extension project to the mentioned interface, so that WSO2 knows how to talk to your service. A sample such implementation written for Okta as a Key Manager is pointed here.
Regarding your concern on validating both the token types;
Yes, it's possible using a custom key manager interface as described above. Once you receive the token at the API Manager side, if you can distinguish if the token was issued by your Dotnet service or by WSO2 itself from your Java logic (May be the token length), then your logic should divert the validation request respectively to WSO2 default Key Validation service (Call super()) or to your Dotnet service call. If you can't distinguish between the two tokens just by looking at them, then you can try both the servers to check if either can validate it. (There's a security vulnerability in that.)
Hope this helps.

Publish Unprotected API on wso2 api manager 3.0.0

I am looking forward to having an API that is not protected by OAuth or basic Application Level Security. How to publish an unprotected API on WSO2 API Manager 3.0.0
You can set the security of the Resource in api publisher as shown below.
You need to un-set the security of all the resources in order to make the full API unprotected.

WSO2 JWT Authentication and Gateway grouping

I have been trying to configure WSO2 API manager as our API Gateway. I am facing below issues while configuring and testing.
Authorization of apis migrated to WSO2
Getting JSONObject["exp"] not found. when trying to access API with Token
Not sure about the client ID which has to be given for Authorization URL: https://localhost:8243/authorize
Is this URL: https://localhost:8243/authorize is the one we use for authenticate the APIs
Have used carbon for creating users, Service and Identity providers, Are they related to each other and how can we use it for the JWT authentication
Is this subscription means creating a user for using API?
How i can group multiple APIs into a microgateway
Please help me
Thanks

WSO2 Identity Server SCIM API Internationalization

We are using WSO2 Identity Server SCIM APIs for user management(i.e creating,listing,updating and authenticating users) in our application.We are also using WSO2 API Manager token API for fetching access token.Our application supports internationalization and we have to display error messages recieved as response from the above mentioned APIs in the localized language.
Does WSO2 support localization for these APIs? If so, is there any reference link to help with the implementation.
Currently WSO2 IS/APIM does not support API level localization. Only UI level localization[1] is supported.
[1] https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM210/Adding+Internationalization+and+Localization

Enable ws-security for proxy service

Currently we have enabled ws-security in wso2 esb using policy file and role based authorization using Active Directory.
We would like to transition some of these services to wso2 api manager and implement the same security model.
How do we secure these APIs (that are facing web service client and not the backend web service) using ws-security on api manager?
To secure the APIs on API manager you can follow this guide. It provides various methods that can secure the APIs. Further if you need to implement role based authorization to the APIs in API manager you can refer to this tutorial.
Hope this helps.

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