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Basic vs Oauth for ServiceNow Integration

Tim McFadden
Kilo Contributor

I am working on an integration using the service now rest api that will be used my multiple companies.  Do most integrations use basic auth or do they use Oauth?

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Harika Bhupathi
Giga Guru

Hi Tim,

 

Please find the below links which might help you.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Difference-between-OAuth-and-Basic-Authentication-and-where/qaq-p/530513

 

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297373/oauth2-ropc-vs-basic-auth-for-public-rest-apis

 

Please do mark my answer as correct/helpful if it helped you in anyway

 

Regards,

Harika