How to create a redis cloud connection url with an auth password

Question

I'm switching over from a heroku addon to a direct redis cloud account and am a bit puzzled on how to generate the redis url with the auth info.

The old heroku add-on url was in the format of redis://rediscloud:mypassword@redis...

However in the dashboard and documentation I don't see any mention of a username to go along with the password. Do I still set rediscloud as the username in my new account and connection string. Does it even matter what I set as the username there?

Answer 1

I use golang (https://github.com/garyburd/redigo) and connect to aliyun cloud Redis (link: https://www.aliyun.com/product/kvstore?spm=5176.8006303.267657.7.cW2xH)

By the connect string:

redis://arbitrary_usrname:password@ipaddress:6379/0

when 0 is the database index and success

Answer 2

At the moment (up to and including v4), Redis doesn't support users and only provides authentication against a global password. In order to be compliant with the URI RFC (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986) and based on the provisional RFC for Redis URIs (https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/redis), you can pass anything as a username, including the empty string, and it will be okay (i.e. ignored).

P.S. thanks for bringing up this obscurity in our docs, I'll see that it is amended.