The worry about basic auth is that the credentials are sent as cleartext and are vulnerable to packet sniffing, if that connection is secured using TLS/SSL then it is as secure as other methods that use encryption.
Update: This solution does not seem to work anymore in many browsers. Kaitsu’s comment: This solution of sending false credentials to make browser forget the correct authenticated credentials doesn’t work in Chrome (16) and IE (9). Works in Firefox (9). Actually you can implement a workaround by sending false credentials to the service. This works … Read more
According to RFC 3986, section 3.2.1, it needs to be percent encoded: userinfo = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / “:” ) So it looks like http://david%40company.com@foo.com/path/ Is right. Where are you trying to read it? Maybe you need to manually decode the value?
If you’re using Guzzle 5.0 or newer, the docs say that basic auth is specified using the auth parameter: $client = new GuzzleHttp\Client(); $response = $client->get(‘http://www.server.com/endpoint’, [ ‘auth’ => [ ‘username’, ‘password’ ] ]); Please note that the syntax is different if you’re using Guzzle 3.0 or earlier. The constructor is different, and you also … Read more
From my blog: This will explain in detail how this all works: Step 1 – Understanding Basic Authentication Whenever you use Basic Authentication a header is added to HTTP Request and it will look similar to this: Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ== Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication “QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==” is just “username:password” encoded in Base64(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64). In order to access headers and … Read more
This is the only method that worked for me so far: $base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes((“{0}:{1}” -f $username,$password))) Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{Authorization=(“Basic {0}” -f $base64AuthInfo)} … But I don’t believe there isn’t a better way.
Right click on Computer and choose “Manage” (or go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management) and under “Local Users and Groups” you can add a new user. Then, give that user permission to read the directory where the site is hosted. Note: After creating the user, be sure to edit the user … Read more
Original spec – RFC 2617 RFC 2617 can be read as “ISO-8859-1” or “undefined”. Your choice. It’s known that many servers use ISO-8859-1 (like it or not) and will fail when you send something else. So probably the only safe choice is to stick to ASCII. For more information and a proposal to fix the … Read more
the potential ‘gotcha’ is if your website does any redirects… Go-lang will drop your specified headers on the redirects. (I had to do wireshark to see this! You can quicky find out in chrome by right-clicking then “inspect element” and click network tab) you’ll want to define a redirect function that adds the header back … Read more
I was facing this issue recently, too. Since you can’t change the browser’s default behavior of showing the popup in case of a 401 (basic or digest authentication), there are two ways to fix this: Change the server response to not return a 401. Return a 200 code instead and handle this in your jQuery … Read more