Authentication error in Node.js

Question

I am trying to make a WebAPI call from server script and i am getting authentication error:

This is how my server.js looks like:

var app = require('http').createServer()
  , io = require('socket.io').listen(app)
  , fs = require('fs')
  , moment = require('moment')
  , request = require('request'); //https://github.com/mikeal/request

app.listen(8000, function () {
    console.log('server started');
    doSomethingOnServerStart();
});


function doSomethingOnServerStart()
{
    console.log('Getting something from server');

    request.get({
        url: 'http://localhost:63213/Api/MyAPI/GetSomething',

    },
        function (error, response, body) {
            console.log(response.statusCode);
            if (response.statusCode == 200) {

                console.log('data received from server');

            } else {
                console.log('error: ' + response.statusCode);
                console.log(body);
            }
        });

}

I am using Mikeal's Request library to make the WebAPI call. In the HTTP Authentication section (https://github.com/mikeal/request#http-authentication), it says pass username and password as "hash" but does not say how do i generate that hash.

I am kind of stuck and dont know how to proceed.

Answer 1

To address your initial question, judging from the documentation it looks like you need to make an additional chained function call:

request.get('http://some.server.com/').auth('username', 'password', false);

or like this

request.get('http://some.server.com/', {
  'auth': {
    'user': 'username',
    'pass': 'password',
    'sendImmediately': false
  }
});

In the second case it mentions having to have auth as a hash (as it is above). It doesn't appear you're sending a username or password anywhere in your code...