Allow inherited authentication that is configured at collection or directory level #6205
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Migrating from Postman to Insomnia and this is the most annoying thing to have to deal with - would love for this feature to be included in Insomnia! |
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I am prioritizing this for the April/May timeframe, after the large Insomnia 9.x release we are about to release in March. |
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When working with different APIs, many (or even all) requests share the same authentication. Right now, it has to be configured for each request individually although all actually require the exact same settings.
These settings, however, are not the same for all requests in all directories in a collection.
For instance, there are APIs that require HTTP Basic Authentication, others use API keys or OAuth 2.0 with client credentials or authorization code flow. Actual credentials might also differ between requests or APIs. So there is quite some variance but still, requests have a lot in common, and some grouping mechanism would be appreciated.
This actually also is an issue with the collection import from Postman as Postman allowed the inheritance of authentication from directories but that information is gone so requests will not work and have to be updated manually.
Therefore, it would be good to be able to set the authentication only once and be able to configure individual requests to either use their own authentication configuration or inherit the configuration from a parent.
This feature request certainly is related to #3694 but in my mind not the same as the other is more getting at environments, and I would like to see that as part of the collection configuration. Also, that discussion is quite old already.
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