Basic authentication is a method for a web browser or other client program to provide a user name and password when making a request.

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Hubot/Express: disable basic auth in a specific route

I am using Hubot and I've defined the environment variables EXPRESS_USER and EXPRESS_PASSWORD to enable basic authentication. Hubot uses express and basically it's setupExpress: -> user = ...
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Http basic authentication using ldap credentials in spring security(spring-boot project) to secure rest service calls

Using Spring Security Basic authentication setup works against some hardcoded username passwords as shown here: ...
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WebClient gets 401 when requesting a directory without a slash

I have a web server using nginx, configured with HTTPS and Basic Authentication. I'm attempting to query it with my WebClient with PowerShell $wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient $wc.Credentials = ...
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Allow Amazon CDN to bypass HTTP Basic Authentication

I am trying to allow Amazon CDN to access the resources on my password protected staging site (HTTP Basic Authentication) This is the code I have on the httpd.conf file for it NameVirtualHost ...
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Web API 2 Authentication without aspnet identity

I am currently developing a web service with Web Api 2 that is called from other web sites we have developed. We have a few web apis that talk to eachother to get information and are currently using ...
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Basic Authentication in CakePHP

I am trying to setup Basic Authentication for my CakePHP app so I can use it as an API for an upcoming mobile application. However If I pass the following: ...
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Authentification with JSF

I know that this question was asked many times , unfortunantly i'm so confused because there are many ways to handle this issues. I have checked alredy many posts like : ...
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express.basicAuth throwing error

I just created the basic authentication in nodejs using express basic auth var express = require('express'); var app = express(); // Authenticator ...
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How to make undertow NOT use authorization for open resource when authorization is included in request?

Using Wildfly 8.1.0.Final I want to create a web app that requires basic authentication for access to /api/* but the rest of the application should be open. To accomplish this I have the following ...
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Does IE pass-through authentication work for a Basic Auth web site?

Can an IIS 6 site using Basic Authentication be configured to do pass-through authentication over Basic Auth to IE browsers?
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NTLM Proxy Translator to Basic Auth or Oauth

I have some services (say S1 & S2) that I would like to connect them with a third party service (say S3) that uses NTLM authentication. My Problem is that I can use either Basic Auth or Oauth. I ...
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Cannot get Basic HTTP Authentication to work using Restlet 2.1

I'm trying to implement basic HTTP authentication using Restlet 2.1, and I just can't get it to work .. ! I'm using a ChallengeAuthenticator to setup Basic HTTP authentication. I have just one URI ...
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Jersey Get DIGEST or Basic HTTP Authentication User and Password

How can I get the user and password in request in Jersey 2.4? The client request sets user and password as below protected HttpAuthenticationFeature feature = ...
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API auth using cakephp

I'm using the code below, It's returning to me as unauthorised, but when I use the same credentials on postman it works. <?php class RepoController extends Controller { public function ...
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What is the difference between basic authentication and cryptographic authentication?

What are the main differences between these two authentication methods? And when would you use one over the other?
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IPhone Enterprise App Installation + Basic Authentication + Iphone asks for pw three times

I have secured my enterprise app by basic authentication.. At the moment if I install the app I need to give my password three times, that's quite a lot. I think it's for downloading the plist and the ...
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Thinktecture Basic Auth WebApi disable on route

I have basic auth wired up using Thinktecture to my WebApi. Is there a way to disable this auth on a single route? Trying to publicly expose a single endpoint. I'm restricted to WebApi v1, in case ...
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How to enable authentication/authorization in Java EE7 Rest application? Getting “Client not authorized for this invocation”

I've been banging my heads against the wall for quite some time now, trying to enable authentication/authorization on a Java EE7 REST application using annotations. No matter how hard I try, I keep ...
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Why does using basicAuth in “ibm-webservicesclient-bind.xmi” still give 401 unauthorised?

I am trying to call a secured web-service from my application running in WebSphere Application Server. The web-service is secured with basic auth & I can hit it successfully from a web browser by ...
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HTTP Basic Auth over SSL and NON-SSL (require entry just once)

Forgive me if this has been asked already, I could not find the answer if it did exist. We have a basic auth prompt using nginx 1.6.0 - and when a user goes to our site at http://example.com/home - ...
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Can I use Basic Authentication in Umbraco without a Login page

I'm building an ASP.Net MVC web application, which uses Umbraco7, to replace an old WebForms website. The old WebForms site uses Basic Authentication on some sections of the site (specified at the ...
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Using Spring, Basic Auth and LDAP, how can I get the supplied username?

I'm authenticating users against LDAP with spring security. My bean config looks like this <security:http use-expressions="true" > <security:intercept-url pattern="/secure/**" ...
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Basic Auth not working on cross domain call Angular

I set the request header for Basic Auth inside app.run app.run(['$route', '$http', 'Base64', function ($route, $http, Base64) { var encoded = Base64.encode(userName + ':' + password); ...
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Is there any WWW-Authenticate header that will prompt user for only password?

I'm developing a scheme where a password alone (not username) grants access to documents. WWW-Authenticate: Basic will prompt user for both username and password. Is there any way to direct standard ...
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@PreAuthorize Annotation is not working in Spring security?

I am using Spring Security for accessing restful webservices in my application. Here is restservice.xml file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans ...
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Not able to login into Tomcat 7 manager App after configuring ldap authentication

I have configured the ldap authentication for my application in Tomcat 7 server.xml. But after this configuration i am not able to login into tomcat manager app. I have configured the roles for ...
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alfresco prompting basic authentication

I'm trying to create my own alfresco authentication subsystem that call a soap SSO web service on a server. I need to create an user in alfresco and set all his informations. I did it but I got a ...
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PHP client web service with basic authentication don't work

I can not get this working: $soap_client = new SoapClient("ServiciosClientes.wsdl"); $user='userAP'; $pwd='passwordAP'; $ns = "http://www.example.com/ns/ServiciosClientes"; $headerbody = ...
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username in `user:[email protected]` not in $_SERVER

To start things off, my server is not running PHP in CGI mode. And even if it was I have the proper mod_rewrite stuff setup (this is a Drupal site). My problem is that when the user/pass are passed ...
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What does php's CURLOPT_USERPWD do

I was wondering what CURLOPT_USERPWD is actually doing to the url, header or data of a request. Is it INSTEAD OF the Authorization: Basic <base64 of user:pass> or does it work along side this? ...
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Node.Js Express Authentication

I have a simple self-made API in my Node.Js / Express app. It requires authentication. My problem is that I don't want the user to have to authenticate via browser (basic authetication) if they ...
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how to implement basic authentication with resttemplate for assembla

private void getResponse(LoginBean object) { String auth = object.getUsername() + ":" + object.getPassword(); byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(auth.getBytes(Charset ...
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Basic Authentication between hosts

Lets say I have a two servers : A & B both having Jetty / Tomcat I want B to do basic auth whenever A tries to connect A. Is it possible to do basic auth between servers using some mechanism ...
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AFNetworking: AFHTTPRequestOperation with basic auth corrupts a AFHTTPRequestOperationManager

When I execute a AFHTTPRequestOperationManager with basic auth it works totally fine. When I execute a AFHTTPRequestOperation with basic auth to download a picture it works totally fine. However, ...
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ASP.NET MVC with Forms Auth and WebApi with Basic Auth

I have a WebApi using Basic Auth nicely. And I have an MVC site using Forms Auth nicely. But here's the catch: Client X has a dedicated database with any number of Contacts and Products. The MVC ...
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basic-authentication - remember_me won't update

I try to set up this tutorial, but I don't know where to put the update_token-method. The migration and the checkbox works well, but the user.save don't work, I guess. I also tried to replace the ...
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Can't set a header using Cors and Ajax

Hello I am trying to do a http request with Basic Auth, but I can't set the header authorization and it is allowed in server. Ajax : $.ajax({ xhrFields: { withCredentials: true }, ...
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Gzip and basic auth with Silverlight 5

How to get Gzip and basic auth working in a HTTP request from Silverlight 5? I'm using HttpClient to send requests. In browser stack mode there is support for gzip but I cannot add basic auth (gives ...
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Afnetworking 2 basic auth post

I'm trying to replicate the next curl line using Afnetworking: curl -basic -u "DD22137584:123456" -d "modulo=dnsDinamico&archivo=dnsDinamicoDesktop&op=obtenertHosts" ...
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Why do I have a huge memory leak when trying to use Basic Authentication in a simple Web Service with Apache Geronimo

I'm using Apache Gronimo 3.01 and I am finding a huge memory leak in a Web Service that uses Basic Authentication (and no memory leak if no authentication is used): The only code is simply this: ...
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How can I password-protect applications behind mod_proxy in Apache?

I have a number of web applications running in a Tomcat instance. They are fronted by an Apache instance, using mod_proxy. Each web application is a silo in and of itself, each with its own user ...
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cakephp BasicAuth unable to auth

I'm developing a rest api for my application. In AppController I have Form Auth with controller authorization that works perfectly. I have issues authenticating with Basic Auth, but only in prod ...
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How to use UrlFetchApp with credentials? Google Scripts

I am trying to use Google Scripts UrlFetchApp to access a website with a basic username and password. As soon as I connect to the site a popup appears that requires authentication. I know the Login ...
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Configure nginx to return different files to different authenticated users with the same URI

I'm using nginx to serve static files in an embedded system, with no CGI back-end. I have basic-authentication up with multiple username/passwords. I'd like to have a specific URI deliver different ...
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Basic authentication with Selenium in Internet Explorer 10

One of our webapplications is using Basic Authentication and build with AngularJS. To test this application, I use Protractor, which uses Selenium to communicate with browsers. In Chrome, everything ...
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base 64 encode for basic authorization header with multiple languages

I am trying to login to a Jira instance from an ios app and i have encountered some problems with the basic 64 encode authorization header with usernames that have chars as 'ñ', 'ó' etc. I solved ...
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Passing Apache Command Line Parameters in Mamp Pro

My goal is to add a conditional to an .htaccess file to turn off Apache authentication on my local machine while keeping it active in the production environment. Apache has a "parameter-name" ...
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MuleStudio 3.x: Is http:rest-service-component deprecated? Renamed? Replaced?

Although there are matches for "rest" and "service" in the components pallet, those don't give you <http:rest-service-component httpMethod="GET" serviceUrl="..." />. And if you manually add it ...
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How to make a basic authentication in web service soap in Mule ESB?

I am wanting to consume soap webservice, only he has basically authentication. When I try to access is returning: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: Have tried putting the username ...
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Spring Security: Commence method in class extending BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint no being called

I'm trying to do rest login from an android app to a web backend. In my web application: I have this class extending BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint: import java.io.IOException; import ...