basic-authentication

This is the code I have to make a simple GET request: var options = { host: 'localhost', port: 8000, path: '/restricted' }; request = http.get(options, function(res){ var body = ""; res.on('data', function(data) { body += data; }); res.on('end', function() { console.log(body); }) res.on('error', function(e) { console.log("Got error: " + e.message); }); }); But that path "/restricted" requires a simple basic HTTP authentication. How do I add the credentials to authenticate? I couldn't find anything related to basic http authentication in NodeJS' manual . Thanks in advance. You need to add the

I've set my ErrorDocument 401 to point to my website's account creation page, but not all browsers seem to honor this redirect (Safari). Also, other browsers (Firefox, Chrome) never quit asking for the password and show the ErrorDocument. This causes a good number of users to give up trying after many password attempts without seeing the account creation page. Is there any way to make the redirect more reliable, without trashing basic authentication altogether? The simple answer to your question is no, you can't make this more reliable without implementing custom authentication. The only way

I am trying to login to a REST API using HTTP Basic Authentication but it is not working and giving the error HTTP error 400: Bad Request Here is my code: import urllib.parse import urllib.request import urllib.response # create an authorization handler #auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler() # Add the username and password. # If we knew the realm, we could use it instead of None. userName = "username" passWord = "pass" top_level_url = "http URL" auth_handler.add_password(None, top_level_url, userName,passWord) #

If you search around the web you will see this question asked a lot but there are no clear answers. Here is my particular case. I am using Versions SVN client on a mac but I get the same problem when using the command line. I have personal repo credentials to someone else's repo and it is working on my one machine where I set it up 6 months ago. I copied my .ssh folder from my user directory to a different machine, installed versions on that machine, and set up by login credentials, only it is failing with the following message: authorization failed: Could not authenticate to server: rejected