Trying to make secure API requests.
Is the Download Tool in Alteryx only HTTP (not HTTPS)? If so is this not unsafe/not secure?
If we cannot use the Download Tool is there a way to use the Python Tool instead? What's the best way to do this if so?
How to we have a Dev vs Prod environment for developing these solution in Alteryx? Particularly around managing the secrets (API Keys etc) and not having them be in Prod.
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The Alteryx Download tool handles secure connections, e.g. HTTPS, so you can use it directly out of the box; I will refer you to this topic Open People Search | Alteryx API Connection; scroll down till you reach my reply, which is very detailed; my reply has links to a 25 minutes video "API's in Alteryx" by "The Data School Australia", please watch it in full. The video suggest to install Postman on your workstation, I strongly suggest to install it.
The person I assisted with the Open People question choose to implement Python, which is OK, now I am attaching here the "Guardian API" workflow.
Once you decide the path for your API consumption (Alteryx-Download tool or Python), we could talk about Dev/Prod environment ans descurity.
Hope this helps,
Arnaldo