Getting Started with the REST API

What Is REST?

REST Components

Message Security

Registration

Authentication
- Create a Shared Secret Key for HTTP Signature Authentication
- Create a P12 Certificate for JSON Web Token Authentication
- Generate the Header
  - HTTP Signature Authentication
    - Send the Request
    - Test the Message
  - JSON Web Token Authentication
    - Generating a JSON Web Token for a POST Request
    - Generating a JSON Web Token for a GET Request

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Generate the Header

After you register with Cybersource and create a JWT certificate or HTTP signature shared key, you can begin coding to authenticate REST API requests.

HTTP Signature Authentication

JSON Web Token Authentication

For code that you can use to authenticate REST API requests, see the SDK for your language: