API How-Tos
IONOS DBaaS REST API
Click here for the OpenAPI Specification File
To make authenticated requests to the API, you must include a few fields in the request headers. Please find relevant descriptions below:
Header | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Authorization | yes | string | HTTP Basic authorization. A base64 encoded string of a username and password separated by a colon. [email protected]:password |
X-Contract-Number | no | integer | Users with more than one contract may apply this header to indicate the applicable contract. |
Content-Type | yes | string | Set this to application/json . |
We use
curl
in our examples, as this tool is available on Windows 10, Linux and macOS. Please refer to our blogpost about curl
on Windows if you encounter any problems:Last modified 3mo ago