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HTTP authentication is a method for a HTTP user agent to provide a user name and a certain proof confirming the user's identity when making a request. Various proofs define different HTTP Authentication methods, e.g. basic, forms, digest, or others.

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How to set the authorization header using cURL

How do I pass authorization header using cURL? ( executable in /usr/bin/curl).
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Basic HTTP authentication with Node and Express 4

It looks like implementing basic HTTP authentication with Express v3 was trivial: app.use(express.basicAuth('username', 'password')); Version 4 (I'm using 4.2) removed the basicAuth middleware, though, so I'm a little stuck. I have the following…
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CURL to access a page that requires a login from a different page

I have 2 pages: xyz.example/a and xyz.example/b. I can only access xyz.example/b if and only if I login to xyz.example/a first. If accessing xyz.example/b without going through the other, I simply get access denied (no redirect to login) via the…
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How can I suppress the browser's authentication dialog?

My web application has a login page that submits authentication credentials via an AJAX call. If the user enters the correct username and password, everything is fine, but if not, the following happens: The web server determines that although the…
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Rails/Rspec Make tests pass with http basic authentication

Here's my http basic authentication in the application controller file (application_controller.rb) before_filter :authenticate protected def authenticate authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password| username == "username"…
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How to do HTTP authentication in android?

I am checking out the class org.apache.http.auth. Any more reference or example if anyone has?
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Using Basic HTTP access authentication in Django testing framework

For some of my Django views I've created a decorator that performs Basic HTTP access authentication. However, while writing test cases in Django, it took me a while to work out how to authenticate to the view. Here's how I did it. I hope somebody…
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PHP_AUTH_USER not set?

For some reason, none of the code within if (isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) && isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'])) { // When the above is set, the code that is here will execute of course } is being executed for me. When I enter the correct…
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How can I get the authenticated user name under Apache using plain HTTP authentication and PHP?

First, let's get the security considerations out of the way. I'm using simple authentication under Apache for a one-off, internal use only, non-internet connected LAN, PHP web app. How can get I the HTTP authenticated user name in PHP?
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JMeter Basic Authentication

I am trying to imply the basic authentication process for a web service using JMeter. But everytime it throws out an error 401:Unauthorized. I tried using the HTTP Header manager to add a header Authorization and value to it. Still it does not work.…
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HTTP basic authentication URL with "@" in password

I'm trying to set up some selenium tests to our staging server using Sauce Labs. It's behind a basic http auth, so theoretically I could set the selenium URL to http://user:password@www.stagesite.com. However, the password contains a "@", causing…
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AFNetworking 2.0 and HTTP Basic Authentication

Can't find AFHTTPClient on AFNetworking 2.0, to use: AFHTTPClient *client = [AFHTTPClient clientWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://examplewebsite.com]]; [client setAuthorizationHeaderWithUsername:@"username" password:@"password"]; How it…
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Can I use HTTP Basic Authentication with Django?

We have a website running on Apache, access to which has a number of static pages protected via HTTP Basic authentication. I've written a new part of the site with Django using Django's built in support for user management. The problem I have is…
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Authentication issues with WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate

I am trying to access a site that is password protected. It is not using basic authentication (even though the same user/pass box pops up in firefox) as the response header is WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate. I want to automate the login process by…
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Standard 401 response when using HTTP auth in flask

In flask, I'm using the following snippet to enable HTTP auth: def authenticate(): return Response('', 401, {'WWW-Authenticate':'Basic realm="Login Required"'}) Now, in my past experience with Flask, if…
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