Request Authentication

Product Advertising API: 2009-11-01

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Request Authentication

Topics

What Is Authentication?
  • Your Product Advertising API Account
  • Your AWS Identifiers
  • Viewing Your AWS Identifiers
  • HMAC-SHA Signatures for REST Requests
  • Authenticating REST Requests
  • Authenticating SOAP Requests

    • The topics in this section describe how the Product Advertising API authenticates your requests. In this section you can learn about the basics of authentication, how your AWS account and identifiers are used to support authentication, and how to create an HMAC-SHA1 signature. This section also covers the request authentication requirements for Query and SOAP requests.

    [Important] Important

    You have until August 15, 2009 to authenticate requests sent to the Product Advertising API. After August 15, 2009, messages that aren't authenticated will be denied.
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