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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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Authenticate http request coming from an android app

i'm building an android app that connect with a server. I do the sign in/authenticate user using their g+ account. Now what I need is how to authenticate the HTTP requests coming from the android app. Thanks
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Use Flask XML-RPC with HTTPAuth?

I am using the Flask XML-RPC extension and everything is working well. Now I want to protect the XML-RPC endpoint with a basic HTTP authentication using Flask HTTPAuth extension. This extension is usually used with routes, but the XML-RPC endpoint…
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(HTTP Basic auth/HTTPS == HTTP Digest auth)?

Is it true that using HTTP Basic auth over HTTPS is at a security level equivalent to HTTP digest auth? If so how does HTTP digest achieve that level of security? Does it add the username and password into the authentication header? Sorry, I'm a bit…
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CFHTTPAuthenticationCreateFromResponse fails to parse response

I'm writing iOS code to authenticate with an HTTPS proxy server, and need to use the Core Foundation APIs in order to construct the "Proxy-Authorization" header. I'm blocked trying to build a valid CFHTTPAuthenticationRef object, though. Upon…
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IIS Server-Level http authentication

we have a staging server that we would like to restrict visits to it unless the client passes Http Basic authentication challenge, if all goes well, the client should be able to navigate the site,if the user goes to a page that requires…
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Add active HTTP login to browser

Is it possible to add an "active login" (Firefox terminology for HTTP credentials) to a browser by using JavaScript? The JavaScript would simply give username and password to the browser. If it is possible: How? The goal is to get rid of the popup a…
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HTTP Authentication With PHP failed to get posted username and password

Following is my code which I am using to HTTP authenticate. The problem I am facing is I am not able to get the posted values I gave in username and password. Kindly let me know how can I fix this? $actual_link =…
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Test API with basic authentication on the server with HTTP Authentication

I'm working on writing API for web-project. For identifying API users basic authentication is used. And in order to test API call I can use curl command line tool and write something like this: curl -H "Authorization: Basic…
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How to pass HTTP_AUTHORIZATION to php5-cgi?

I have a virtual server running Ubuntu 12.04 and using php5-cgi. It was auto installed by Plesk 11 and I'm not sure if I can safely replace it with libapache2-mod-php5 or php5-fpm. HTTP authentication doesn't work on my server and I found out that…
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http authentication is not working in php after page is loaded for second time

I had learnt about this authentication in php two days ago and applied on a practice website
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Why is my http authentication not working?

I set up http authentication for one of my sites. The web app is built using code igniter and custom URI routing. After changing the .conf file for the site, I got 404 Not Found errors when trying to access any of the pages besides the homepage. For…
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spring-security force "http" authentication

I can't log in using spring-security. The error is (in Mozilla) The connection was interrupted The connection to 127.0.0.1:8180 was interrupted while the page was loading. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few…
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Apache/.htaccess - password-protecting a domain but whitelisting certain URIs within it

So here's what I'd like to do: access to http://example.com/* would require the user to enter a username/password, except when they go to a certain URIs (e.g. http://example.com/contact/ , http://example.com/blog/, etc.) they shouldn't have to…
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"Error getting session" in websphere but working fine in jboss

I am calling a RestfulWebservice present in Websphere server from a javascript or browser by adding Authorization in the request header but getting "Error getting session". After digging into the code I found that Authorization header values are…
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Reddit API Authentication using Requests for Python

I'm trying to do some basic HTTP authentication with the Reddit API using my username as a test, but I still get 429 errors (too many requests) occasionally when I'm nowhere near the limit. I was partially following this guide: How To use reddit API…
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