How to pass user and password in new_handle in curl R

Question

I have curl request that is working file, which is as follows:

curl -XGET "https://xxxx.com/xxx" -u "username:password"

How I want to do it using curl package in R

I have following code,

library(curl) clCall <- new_handle(url = 'https://xxxx.com/xxx') handle_setopt(clCall, customrequest = "XGET")

Now I don't know how to pass username and password in this curl request

Answer 1

You should set httpauth and userpwd options too:

h <- curl::new_handle()
curl::handle_setopt(
    handle = h,
    httpauth = 1,
    userpwd = "user:passwd"
)
resp <- curl::curl_fetch_memory("https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd", handle = h)
jsonlite::fromJSON(rawToChar(resp$content))
#> $authenticated
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $user
#> [1] "user"