How to send Basic Auth with axios

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I’m trying to implement the following code, but something is not working. Here is the code:

      var session_url="http://api_address/api/session_endpoint";
      var username="user";
      var password = 'password';
      var credentials = btoa(username + ':' + password);
      var basicAuth="Basic " + credentials;
      axios.post(session_url, {
        headers: { 'Authorization': + basicAuth }
      }).then(function(response) {
        console.log('Authenticated');
      }).catch(function(error) {
        console.log('Error on Authentication');
      });

It’s returning a 401 error. When I do it with Postman there is an option to set Basic Auth; if I don’t fill those fields it also returns 401, but if I do, the request is successful.

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Here is part of the docs of the API of how to implement this:

This service uses Basic Authentication information in the header to establish a user session. Credentials are validated against the Server. Using this web-service will create a session with the user credentials passed and return a JSESSIONID. This JSESSIONID can be used in the subsequent requests to make web-service calls.*

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