Questions tagged [http-authentication]

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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PHP REST API get authorization data

I'm writing REST API in PHP and recently I faced with authorization problem. I read a lot about basic authorization, about using private and public keys to create request signature. It is said that using request signature is more secure. But then I…
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Persistent basic access Authentication

I know one can easily create a "Remember me" option for cookie based authentication login systems. Is such a thing also possible for basic access HTTP authentication? Usually, the credentials the browser caches are flushed once the browser is…
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curl_easy_perform not sending authorization credentials on redirect to new domain

I am using curl in C to send HTTP requests to a web API that has multiple versions. Depending on the user-agent, the web server sends a 301 response and curl tries to follow the redirect. This all works as designed but there is a special case where…
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Sitewide http auth interfering with Symfony2 app authentication

I have a site under development with the following structure: public_html/ index.php symfony_app/ other_app/ Currently I have the root of the site behind Basic HTTP authentication during the development testing phase. I couldn't figure…
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NSURLConnection doesn't call NSURLConnectionDelegate authentication methods after an HTTP 401

I'm consume a web service that uses HTTP basic auth with an NSURLConnection. In my NSURLConnectionDelegate, I implemented –[NSURLConnectionDelegate connection:canAuthenticateAgainstProtectionSpace:], –[NSURLConnectionDelegate…
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Storing Credentials in Authentication Server made using Java libraries for unit testing

I have created the Authentication Server using Java.. I want to know how should I store the credentials of the users in my server so that I can perform the Authentication in the fastest and the best way.
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Add basic http authentication info in a servlet

I have a servlet out of the secured area. I want to add Basic Http Authentication info (so the "Authorization: Basic asdasdmasdjsankj" header and forward the flow to the index page. Obviously the forward will be intercepted by the basic http auth…
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How to access HTTP Authentication dialog using Firefox SDK

I am writing a Firefox add-on for Linux users to pass credentials for NTLM authenticated sites.some what similar to AutoAuth which is written using XUL framework https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/autoauth/ my question is how to access…
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Getting JSON data from a website using Delphi

There is this website http://www.ingress.com/intel To access the website, we must login using username and password. Once accessed, the site uses JSON for its data. I am new to this JSON thing. Anyone can give a general example how to get JSON data…
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Open-source Java server-side implementations of HTTP auth decoding

I have a requirement to perform HTTP authentication logic within a servlet application, rather than delegating this task to the container. Specifically, I need a way of taking the headers of an HttpServletRequest which contains HTTP auth headers,…
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Tomcat, HTTP authentication, and Active Directory

In our intranet, all users log in Windows from an Active Directory domain. I must develop a solution for authenticating users against Active Directory, that runs in Tomcat and works for both Servlet and Axis2. I'm already able to verify…
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HTTP Authentication and REST

I am building a PHP Api that will allow a mobile app to talk to it. The app is more of a tech demo at the moment to test technology and ideas. To secure the app requests, certain things will need authentication. So let's take the following for…
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HTTP Error 401 at accessing Socialcast API

I receive 401 Unauthorized when trying to connect to Socialcast API (Demo). This is my code: ClientConnectionManager connectionManager = new BasicClientConnectionManager(); HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(connectionManager); …
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Kerberos and forms authentication?

We have a system that's exposed to internal users (who have Kerberos authentication) and to 3rd parties that can log in via a traditional username/password form. What we've currently done is to have multiple servers running, some that are Kerberized…
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HTTP Authentication won't work on localhost Zend WAMP server

I've been working through PHP, MySQL, Javascript & CSS 2nd edition by Robert Nixon (O'Reilly 2012). I've managed to set up a database on my WAMP server (Zend server). The book then shows how to authenticate a username and password. i managed to…