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title: Managed - Basic Authentication
slug: v111/managed-basic-authentication
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createdAt: 2025-06-10T06:55:00.947Z
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Basic authentication is another simple (but not very secure) method of authenticating to external systems. Servicely can securely store and manage external credentials in a SystemAPIOutboundToken record and relay the credentials to the integrating application as required.

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### Using from the Scripting environment

To use the SystemAPIOutboundToken from the Scripting environment, simply call the ‘**apiTokenAuth**' method of any of the outbound HTTP methods. The Basic Authentication credentials will be applied before the message is sent.

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