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Information on API Keys
Advantages of API Key Authentication API Key authentication has the following advantages over providing username and password when integrating with Nearmap imagery: More secure: some existing applications do not provide a means of passing through username and password in a secure manner. API Key authentication is a more…
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API Key Authentication
Introduction API Key authentication allows you to consume Nearmap imagery in an application without having to provide your Nearmap username and password as authentication credentials. Instead you include an API Key – a unique long string associated with a particular user on your Nearmap account – and then include that API…
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How to Use an API Key in Nearmap Integrations
Use your API Key to authenticate with all Nearmap's HTTP-based services: WMS, WMTS, TMS and Image API. The API Key must be sent with every request to the service. The API key can be sent with the request using the apikey URL parameter or an HTTP Authorization header. Using API Key in a URL Include…
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Troubleshoot API Keys
Error Codes and Descriptions An unsuccessful request to a Nearmap service will return an HTTP status code indicating an error. The status code for authentication failure is 401 Unauthorized. All API Key related failures will return a 401 status code. In addition to the status code of 401, a small JSON payload is returned…