API Testing Challenges 29 - How To - authentication failed 401
How to complete the authentication failed with username and password challenge number 29, which returns a status code of 401.
Issue a POST request on the `/secret/token` end point and receive 401 when Basic auth username/password is not admin/password
`POST` request means use the HTTP Verb POST
e.g. `POST /secret/token` sends to the heartbeat endpoint
`Basic auth` means include the [Basic Authorization header](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...)
`username/password is not admin/password` the authorisation header value is base 64 encoded, and the details should not match `admin` as the username, and `password` for the password
add the `X-CHALLENGER` header to track progress and because the authentication code we need is asociated with the `X-challenger` session
Receive a 401 response
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