Authentication

Every request of the API needs to be authenticated otherwise a 401 Unauthorized response will be returned. The client will need to use the administrator user's credentials through the HTTP Basic Auth header. That means that if you plan to use the API of your shop installation you will need to do it through the HTTPS protocol in order to be secure. You can enable HTTPS by purchasing an SSL certificate for your server.

The HTTP Basic Auth header works by providing the username:password string combination encoded in base64. The header expected by the API must look like this Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5Ac2hvcC5kZToxMjM0NQ== which stands for admin@shop.de:12345.

You can find more information about basic HTTP authentication in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

JSONP

JSONP is not supported because the API requires authentication for every request and this is not possible with this technique.