Solved: Basic Authentication with header format Authorizat... - Page 2

LinkedIn · 07-25-2017 12:30 PM

Hi,

I want to hit a target url with takes header as

Authorization Basic user=name:passwo0rd

I have used basic authentication Encode policy and attached it to request preflow

<BasicAuthentication name="ApplyBasicAuthHeader">
   <DisplayName>ApplyBasicAuthHeader</DisplayName>
   <Operation>Encode</Operation>
   <IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>false</IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>
   <User ref="BasicAuth.credentials.username" />
   <Password ref="BasicAuth.credentials.password" />
   <AssignTo createNew="false">request.header.Authorization</AssignTo>
</BasicAuthentication>

Is there any better way to implement this and how this username password will be populated.
Please give me a better insight.

ssvaidyanathan

HI @abhishek giri - Thats not a valid Authorization header. More details here

Typically you pass the base64 encoded value of username:password within the Authorization header with prefix as "Basic". For example Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==

Your policy code looks good provided you have the variables populated with the correct values. The policy above is using a reference variable which should contain the actual value of the user and password. Hopefully thats the case. If not, please get them populated and see if that did the trick

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Basic Authentication with header format Authorization user:pass format