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VERIFY THAT REQUESTS TO A SERVICE ARE CACHED IN KONG FOR A SPECIFIC CONSUMER

Review: Enable Key-Auth + Provision a Consumer

In a previous lab, you learned how to enable the Key-Auth plugin and provision a Consumer, use the following commands to quickly:

Add the Key-Auth plugin

Add a Consumer to Kong

Provision key credentials for your consumer

Verify that the consumer credentials are valid

Use the following http commands to quickly enable the key-auth plugin on the httpbin service and configure consumer named Jason with an apikey of jasonkey

# Add the Key-Auth Plugin

http post localhost:8001/services/httpbin/plugins \

name=key-auth

# Add a Consumer

http post localhost:8001/consumers \

username=Jason

# Provision key credentials for your Consumer

http post localhost:8001/consumers/Jason/key-auth \

key=jasonkey

# Verify that your Consumer credentials are valid

http get localhost:8000/ \

host:example.com \

apikey:jasonkey

Response

The response should look similar to this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

Connection: keep-alive

Content-Length: 523

Content-Type: application/json

Server: gunicorn/19.9.0

X-Cache-Key: 9236523725fec746b7c0ad7dadeed365

X-Cache-Status: Miss

X-Kong-Proxy-Latency: 112

X-Kong-Upstream-Latency: 9

{

"args": {},

"data": "",

"files": {},

"form": {},

"headers": {

"Accept": "*/*",

"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",

"Apikey": "jasonkey",

"Connection": "close",

"Host": "httpbin.org",

"User-Agent": "HTTPie/1.0.2",

"X-Consumer-Id": "1264dcd7-1525-4272-90ab-aa17785e7811",

"X-Consumer-Username": "Jason",

"X-Forwarded-Host": "example.com"

"json": null,

"method": "GET",

"origin": "172.19.0.1, 52.201.239.166",

"url": "http://example.com/anything"

}

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