Continental Payment API uses Basic Authentication for authenticating merchant accounts.
Prior to authenticating, make sure to have your API and OUTGOING keys at hand. If you already have an account with us, please navigate to My Company section in your dashboard to view and manage authentication keys.
Basic authentication is a simple authentication scheme built into the HTTP protocol. The client sends HTTP requests with the Authorization header that contains the word Basic followed by a space and a base64-encoded string username:password. For example, to authorize as username demo and password p@55w0rd the client would send following HTTP HEADER:
Authorization: Basic ZGVtbzpwQDU1dzByZA==
Simply include your API key as your username and OUTGOING key as your password in your basic auth encoding string.
Content-Type Headers
When using BASIC AUTH, you should set your Content-Type HTTP header value to application/json and post a JSON body in your request payloads.