OpenAPI Authentication and Authorization

External

• https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication

Internal

• Open API

Overview

This applies to OpenAPI 3.0.

OpenAPI uses the term security scheme for authentication and authorization schemes. OpenAPI 3.0 supports the following security schemes:

• HTTP authentication schemes, based on the Authorization header.
  • Basic
  • Bearer
  • Other schemes defined by RFC7245.
• API keys in headers, query strings and cookies.
  • Cookie authentication.
• OAuth 2
• OpenID Connect Discovery.