[Home](./index.md) > [ibm-cloud-sdk-core](./ibm-cloud-sdk-core.md) > [TokenRequestBasedAuthenticator](./ibm-cloud-sdk-core.tokenrequestbasedauthenticator.md) ## TokenRequestBasedAuthenticator class Class for common functionality shared by token-request authenticators. TokenRequestBasedAuthenticators use token managers to retrieve, store, and refresh tokens. Not intended to be used as stand-alone authenticator, but as base class to authenticators that have their own token manager implementations. The token will be added as an Authorization header in the form: Authorization: Bearer <bearer-token> **Signature:** ```typescript export declare class TokenRequestBasedAuthenticator extends TokenRequestBasedAuthenticatorImmutable ``` **Extends:** TokenRequestBasedAuthenticatorImmutable ## Methods

Method	Modifiers	Description
[setDisableSslVerification(value)](./ibm-cloud-sdk-core.tokenrequestbasedauthenticator.setdisablesslverification.md)		Set the flag that indicates whether verification of the server's SSL certificate should be disabled or not.
[setHeaders(headers)](./ibm-cloud-sdk-core.tokenrequestbasedauthenticator.setheaders.md)		Set headers.