API Usage

Phenix APIs are used with standard HTTP Authorization headers.

Use HTTP Basic Authentication with your applicationId and secret. This Authorization: Basic <string> should be your "applicationId:secret", not an authentication token from the edgeAuth library.

For example, in the header:

1PUT /pcast/channel HTTP/1.1
2Host: pcast.phenixrts.com
3Accept: application/json
4Authorization: Basic YXBwbGljYXRpb25JZDpzZWNyZXQ=
5Content-Type: application/json

The string following Authorization: Basic is simply base64-encoded "applicationId:secret".

base64 encoding is a reversible encoding. Always use HTTPS along with Basic Authentication.

To create an authorization string using your own applicationId and secret

1. Concatenate your applicationId with a colon and your secret

2. Base64 encode the resulting string

For example, if your applicationId is example.com and your secret is Not.a.real.secret007gaH.E-f)z4+9, the concatenated string would be

example.com:Not.a.real.secret007gaH.E-f)z4+9

And the base64-encoded string would be:

ZXhhbXBsZS5jb206Tm90LmEucmVhbC5zZWNyZXQwMDdnYUguRS1mKXo0Kzk=

When using Phenix APIs, your headers would include:

Authorization: Basic ZXhhbXBsZS5jb206Tm90LmEucmVhbC5zZWNyZXQwMDdnYUguRS1mKXo0Kzk=