docs/api/authorization/authorization.md

Group Authorization

To issue some API calls you need to be authorized. For example, you need to be authorized to list all submissions on Judge0.

Authorize [/authorize{?X-Auth-User}]

Authorize [POST]

With this API call you can check if your authorization token is valid. If authentication is enabled you should also authenticate in this API call.

::: note

Note

* `X-Auth-User` is default header field name, but administrators of Judge0 instance you are using can change this default field name. * Contact administrator of Judge0 instance you are using to get your authorization token. :::

::: warning

Security Warning

* Although you can send authorization token as URI parameter, **always** send authorization token through headers. :::

• Request

  • Headers

    X-Auth-User: a1133bc6-a0f6-46bf-a2d8-6157418c6fe2
    

• Response 200 If your authorization token is valid.

  • Body

• Response 403 Authorization failed because your authorization token is invalid.
  • Body