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title: SCIM authentication
description: SCIM requests to the LDAP endpoints will support HTTP Basic Authentication and OAuth2 Authentication using a bearer token. There is existing support for this feature in the PingDirectory server and the PingDirectoryProxy server using the OAuthTokenHandler API (meaning through a Server SDK extension, which requires some technical work to implement).
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# SCIM authentication

SCIM requests to the LDAP endpoints will support HTTP Basic Authentication and OAuth2 Authentication using a bearer token. There is existing support for this feature in the PingDirectory server and the PingDirectoryProxy server using the OAuthTokenHandler API (meaning through a Server SDK extension, which requires some technical work to implement).

Note that our implementation only supports the HTTP Authorization header for this purpose; we do not support the form-encoded body parameter or URI query parameter mechanisms for specifying the credentials or bearer token.