09-01-2022 08:15 AM - edited 09-01-2022 11:43 AM
Is it possible to request an API key via "/api/?type=keygen" without providing the account password in the URL? This seems like a notable security issue since the URL is not encrypted. These pages suggest it is possible: Authenticate Your API Requests, API Authentication and Security. However, my testing of the "Authentication: Bearer" header via "/api/?type=keygen" results in an error about a missing user parameter.
Edit: Typing from memory - bad. That header should be "Authorization: Basic ..."
09-01-2022 10:58 AM
Giving the authentication information via body in a POST is still supported in PAN-OS v10.2. Both the pan-os-python and pango libraries do it this way, and still supply the API key as part of the body in API requests.
09-01-2022 10:58 AM
Giving the authentication information via body in a POST is still supported in PAN-OS v10.2. Both the pan-os-python and pango libraries do it this way, and still supply the API key as part of the body in API requests.
09-01-2022 12:00 PM
@gfreeman Thanks for mentioning the POST/body option. I found the specifics in the third example here: Structure of a PAN-OS XML API Request
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