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.
Questions tagged [http-authentication]
622 questions
0
votes
1 answer
Embeded FLEX Control Hosted in JBOSS, How do i use Http Basic Authentication with "embed" or "object" tags?
So we have three FLEX controls hosted within a JBOSS server instance, and an IIS (MVC) application which has pages that have the object (and embed) tags to render the controls. We are wanting to setup HTTP basic authentication on the jboss server…
RyanFetz
- 525
- 2
- 8
- 25
0
votes
1 answer
How do I remove HTTP authentication on a website on a FreeBSD Server?
Sorry that I haven't done much of my own research but I do not know how to set up basic authentication, nevermind removing it!
Thanks.
EDIT:
Sorry, what was I thinking, its in httpd.conf or includes!
igluratds
- 5
- 2
- 5
0
votes
1 answer
Cannot add user to database/_security in CouchDB using HTTP PUT
The problem
In my Android app, I am trying to add a user to the /_security document of my CouchDB database via HTTP PUT. If I am trying to do this by authenticating my admin user using Cookie-authentication or by simply inserting the admin data into…
f26e
- 115
- 6
0
votes
1 answer
Authenticate with CouchDB and insert new database via HTTP PUT in Android app
I am implementing an Android app that should upload data to CouchDB. Since I have restricted the admin access to one account, I have to authenticate before inserting a new database. And this is what I am currently struggling with: Authenticate and…
f26e
- 115
- 6
0
votes
1 answer
Cannot Logging to Website using Requests in Python? Probably Missmatch between types
The code doesn't work, and I cannot figure out why.
I found the input values using FireFox developer inspector. password is of type password, pwdtext is a text, but only password is connected to the input field. Submit is called login and its…
0
votes
1 answer
htttp auth with node and express
I have set up http auth on my express website however I only want one specific url to be authenticated. '/admin'. Currently all area's require authentication other than the root, which is odd.
My Code:
var auth = require("http-auth");
var basic =…
wazzaday
- 9,474
- 6
- 39
- 66
0
votes
1 answer
VtigerCRM customer portal can not connect to the CRM server_Authorization Required
We are using VtigerCRM on our local server which provides ldap authentication for http access, also have the customer portal of vtiger on another machine.
When customer portal connects to the server, this authorization problem occurs. The complete…
Masood
- 685
- 2
- 8
- 16
0
votes
1 answer
How to run the rest xml request in jemeter and how to configure the tomcat keystore
I'm the newbee to the jmeter. I want to run same REst xml test cases run by the soapui. I need to know to do user/password configuration and tomcat keystore configuration for ssl enabled(https) request. Any help appreciated.
Mercy
- 171
- 3
- 12
0
votes
2 answers
How make basic http authorization with angular.js?
My backend is structured similar to this article.
So I would like to send GET request with angular.js similar to how curl does it, authorizing via http headers:
$ curl -u miguel:python -i -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/token
HTTP/1.0 200…
holms
- 9,112
- 14
- 65
- 95
0
votes
1 answer
Unable to authenticate to CouchDB from jQuery
I have a CouchDB instance running and I am trying to use cookie authentication to connect from an Ember application.
From the command line I can successfully authenticate using:
curl -vX POST $HOST/_session -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{…
dysbulic
- 3,005
- 2
- 28
- 48
0
votes
1 answer
How to request authentication in NodeJS
This question shows how to parse authorization headers, but how do I request the client to send the authorization? I think I have to set a header, but how to do that in node, I'm not sure. Of course, if it doesn't, I just send a 401, but Chrome…
Arlen Beiler
- 15,336
- 34
- 92
- 135
0
votes
1 answer
Requiring httpauth username and password for Wordpress blog except RSS feed
I am trying to secure my wordpress blog with httpauth, except for the RSS feed. This worked for me in apache 2.2, but I can't get it to work in apache 2.4.
I have an .htaccess file in my blog directory looking like this:
# BEGIN WordPress
kaarefc
- 206
- 1
- 6
0
votes
1 answer
Django Basic HTTP AUTH
I am testing out Django 1.6 under Windows 7 using its integrated web server for debug purposes.
At some point I have a view that needs to be protected by authentication. (for debug purposes - not proper authentication).
The problem is that the…
stratis
- 7,750
- 13
- 53
- 94
0
votes
1 answer
basic authentication with nginx followed by digest authentication in PHP fails
I'm developing a new app and decided to protect cloud staging server with Basic authentication.
I'm using nginx, so the config looks like this:
location / {
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file .htpasswd;
try_files $uri $uri/…
temuri
- 2,767
- 5
- 41
- 63
0
votes
1 answer
iphone - Authorization Post petition
I am trying to make an user authorization to webservice in iphone. The equivalent ant test java version is the following code:
HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://webserviceurl/authuser");
// Header Basic base64 user:pass
…
doxsi
- 1,002
- 19
- 42