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title: "Authentication Middleware"
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Basic and Token authentication are handled by Faraday::Request::BasicAuthentication
and Faraday::Request::TokenAuthentication respectively.
These can be added as middleware manually or through the helper methods.

### Basic Authentication

```ruby
Faraday.new(...) do |conn|
  conn.basic_auth('username', 'password')
end
```

### Token Authentication

```ruby
Faraday.new(...) do |conn|
  conn.token_auth('authentication-token')
end
```