Using HTTPHeaders for basic authentification

[kolia]

Hello,
I'm trying to set HTTPHeaders property in order to perform authentification.
Here is the line of code

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set the httpHeaders to "Authorization: Basic " && base64Encode("user:password")

It does not work whereas

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put url "http://user:password@192.168.21.251/globalstatus.xml" into response

Could someone show me the right way to do it?
Thank you

[pink]

it looks correct to me, is that the only httpHeader that you are setting?

[kolia]

Hi Greg,

Yes this is the only header I set, and it does not work. The problem might be other party. I've no clue how to troubleshoot that
Nicolas

[FourthWorld]

I've used Basic HTTP Authentication successfully without having to alter the request header.

[kolia]

Hi Richard,

I've used Basic HTTP Authentication successfully without having to alter the request header.

I'm not an HTML guru. Could you elaborate a bit?
If I understand well setting the header permits to send a regular http request without having to put user:password@ before the URL. Am I correct?

Thanks
Nicolas

[pink]

One minor thing is that you end up having an extra space in the header with what you pasted in:

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set the httpHeaders to "Authorization: Basic " && base64Encode("user:password")

You have a space between the word Basic and the quotation marks, and then you use && which also adds a space

try

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put "Authorization: Basic" && base64Encode("user:password") into tHeader
set the httpHeaders to tHeader

I honestly am not sure if that would cause a problem but it's worth a shot.

[kolia]

ok as you said I'll give a shot
Nicolas