title: Which Alfresco REST API requires which authentication method?
body: <p>Can someone explain how authentication works in the Alfresco REST apis please? It appears that sometimes I cannot use basic as I get a format error (odd) (and have to prepend the username and password to the request); sometimes I have to use OAuth (for example create-site needs this apparently and certainly doesn't allow Basic authentication.</p>
  
  <p>Could someone detail what is required for which API? Is it different between the share and repo tiers? Ultimately, and I don't think this is an open question as this is not about what's appropriate but what is required to get the GET, POST, PUT, DELETE requests working, so no opinions please, just facts :-) (and then I won't get (rightly) told off for asking an open ended question)</p>