You have to set the Authorization field in the header. It contains the authentication type Basic in this case and the username:password combination which gets encoded in Base64: var username=”Test”; var password = ‘123’; var auth=”Basic ” + Buffer.from(username + ‘:’ + password).toString(‘base64’); // new Buffer() is deprecated from v6 // auth is: ‘Basic VGVzdDoxMjM=’ … Read more
The Basic and Digest authentication schemes are dedicated to the authentication using a username and a secret (see RFC7616 and RFC7617). The Bearer authentication scheme is dedicated to the authentication using a token and is described by the RFC6750. Even if this scheme comes from an OAuth2 specification, you can still use it in any … Read more
Try this one to push basic authentication at url: curl -i http://username:password@dev.myapp.com/api/users -H “Authorization: Bearer mytoken123” ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If above one doesn’t work, then you have nothing to do with it. So try the following alternates. You can pass the token under another name. Because you are handling the authorization from your Application. So you can … Read more
I am assuming Basic authentication here. $cred = Get-Credential Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ‘https://whatever’ -Credential $cred You can get your credential through other means (Import-Clixml, etc.), but it does have to be a [PSCredential] object. Edit based on comments: GitHub is breaking RFC as they explain in the link you provided: The API supports Basic Authentication as … Read more
Digest Authentication communicates credentials in an encrypted form by applying a hash function to: the username, the password, a server supplied nonce value, the HTTP method and the requested URI. Whereas Basic Authentication uses non-encrypted base64 encoding. Therefore, Basic Authentication should generally only be used where transport layer security is provided such as https. See … Read more
To help everyone avoid confusion, I will reformulate the question in two parts. First: “how can make an authenticated HTTP request with a browser, using BASIC auth?”. In the browser you can do a HTTP basic auth first by waiting the prompt to come, or by editing the URL if you follow this format: http://myusername:mypassword@somesite.example … Read more
Will the username and password be automatically SSL encrypted? Is the same true for GETs and POSTs Yes, yes yes. The entire communication (save for the DNS lookup if the IP for the hostname isn’t already cached) is encrypted when SSL is in use.
You want this: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . “:” . $password); Zend has a REST client and zend_http_client and I’m sure PEAR has some sort of wrapper. But its easy enough to do on your own. So the entire request might look something like this: $ch = curl_init($host); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(‘Content-Type: application/xml’, $additionalHeaders)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); … Read more
Have the user click on a link to https://log:out@example.com/. That will overwrite existing credentials with invalid ones; logging them out.
curl -u username:password http:// curl -u username http:// From the documentation page: -u, –user <user:password> Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides -n, –netrc and –netrc-optional. If you simply specify the user name, curl will prompt for a password. The user name and passwords are split up on the first … Read more