Connection and Authentication
5 min
connection protocol communication with the bonotel api is performed through secured hypertext transfer protocol (https) connections the api is written to receive requests and generate responses in xml headers request method post content type application/xml all customers are required to use gzip compression to effectively manage the size and speed of responses utilize the following header to accomplish this request header name request header value accept encoding gzip,deflate,compress;q=0 9 urls true false 195false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type methods true false 185,225false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type authentication authentication is handled by passing in a username and password combination in the xml body of each request method \<control> 	\<username>{{username}}\</username> 	\<password>{{password}}\</password> \</control>