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We're trying to test an API that requires HTTP Basic Access Authentication credentials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) in the request.
Ideally, we could just test the API using a web browser by putting all API parameters in the URL querystring, but we haven't yet found a way to encode the HTTP Basic Access Authentication credentials (username and password) in the querystring.
Does anyone know a way to do this?
Thus far, we've tried:
https://username:[email protected]/
...without success.
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We can do HTTP basic authentication URL with @ in password. We have to pass the credentials appended with the URL. The username and password must be added with the format − https://username:password@URL.
For HTTP basic authentication, each request must include an authentication header, with a base-64 encoded value. Where siteName is the company name you use to log in to Eloqua, and username and password are your Eloqua username and password.
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It is indeed not possible to pass the username and password via query parameters in standard HTTP auth. Instead, you use a special URL format, like this: http://username:[email protected]/ -- this sends the credentials in the standard HTTP "Authorization" header.
username:password@url authentication has been disabled in many browsers for security reasons.
For example in IE:
As far as I know, there is no way to circumvent this if this is blocked. It's possible that this can be turned of in Firefox using a setting in about:config. Or use some other browser that doesn't block it - I don't know which ones do and which don't.
Alternatively, consider building a quick web form that submits the option to a server-side language (e.g. PHP) that makes the request, or use a command line client like wget to send the requests. The latter might even be easiest
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