is an option for cloud, web and SSH access functions that allows authentication parameters to be given.
Authentication
is an option for cloud, web and SSH access functions that allows authentication parameters to be given.
Details
- Possible settings for Authentication include:
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Automatic base authentication on CloudConnect credentials<|"Username"…,…|> give explict username, etc. for authenticationassoc insert specified explicit elements in the HTTP request
- In the form Authenticationassoc, the association assoc can contain the following elements:
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"Username" username to use for authentication"Password" password to use for authentication"Headers" list of headers to be sent to the server"Query" HTTP query string or list of parameter-value pairs"SSHKey" SSH identity"SSHKeyPassword" passphrase string to use to decrypt SSHKey
- An SSH identity can be given in the form "SSHKey" File [ident], where ident is a file containing an SSH private key. It can also be given as "SSHKey" "string", where "string" is an SSH private key.
Examples
Basic Examples (6)
Deploy a cloud object with permissions granted to a PermissionsKey :
Read the cloud object contents using a PermissionsKey for Authentication :
Copy a file from a remote machine using an identity file:
Connect to the Google Translate API, authenticating with an API key:
Connect to the Pushbullet API, authenticating with the user's access token sent in the request's header:
Connect to the Reddit API, authenticating using an OAuth 2.0 SecuredAuthenticationKey :
Execute a basic request using the authentication key:
Connect to Twitter using ServiceConnect by providing a set of custom Twitter app credentials:
Text
Wolfram Research (2016), Authentication, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Authentication.html (updated 2019).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2016. "Authentication." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2019. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Authentication.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2016). Authentication. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Authentication.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_authentication, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Authentication}", year="2019", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Authentication.html}", note=[Accessed: 16-November-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_authentication, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Authentication}, year={2019}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Authentication.html}, note=[Accessed: 16-November-2025]}