topic Re: Rest API authorization failed. in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/rest-api-authorization-failed/m-p/38679#M16277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I assume you're trying to use the REST API for the V6 community edition. It certainly does use basic authentication (<A class="link-titled" href="https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/6.0-release/modules/activiti-rest/src/main/java/org/activiti/rest/security/BasicAuthenticationProvider.java" title="https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/6.0-release/modules/activiti-rest/src/main/java/org/activiti/rest/security/BasicAuthenticationProvider.java" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Activiti/BasicAuthenticationProvider.java at 6.0-release · Activiti/Activiti · GitHub</A>&nbsp;- if you're running from source code you could breakpoint or add logging at that class) so I'd expect that to work provided the admin/test user is in your database. I'd suggest checking whether it is in your database. You could also try from postman and adding the authentication header there.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:47:53 GMT ryandawson 2017-07-27T10:47:53Z Rest API authorization failed. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/rest-api-authorization-failed/m-p/38678#M16276 I am calling rest APIs from outside activiti from a stand alone page&nbsp;simply on a button click "http://admin:test@localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/runtime/process-instances&nbsp;" and it is giving error&nbsp;401 (Unauthorized)&nbsp;I found that for authorization we can include user name and password in the requ Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:54:12 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/rest-api-authorization-failed/m-p/38678#M16276 vikash_patel 2017-07-25T11:54:12Z Re: Rest API authorization failed. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/rest-api-authorization-failed/m-p/38679#M16277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I assume you're trying to use the REST API for the V6 community edition. It certainly does use basic authentication (<A class="link-titled" href="https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/6.0-release/modules/activiti-rest/src/main/java/org/activiti/rest/security/BasicAuthenticationProvider.java" title="https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/6.0-release/modules/activiti-rest/src/main/java/org/activiti/rest/security/BasicAuthenticationProvider.java" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Activiti/BasicAuthenticationProvider.java at 6.0-release · Activiti/Activiti · GitHub</A>&nbsp;- if you're running from source code you could breakpoint or add logging at that class) so I'd expect that to work provided the admin/test user is in your database. I'd suggest checking whether it is in your database. You could also try from postman and adding the authentication header there.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:47:53 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/rest-api-authorization-failed/m-p/38679#M16277 ryandawson 2017-07-27T10:47:53Z