HTTP Client based on NodeJS: How to authenticate a request?

Question

This is the code I have to make a simple GET request:

var options = {     host: 'localhost',     port: 8000,     path: '/restricted' };  request = http.get(options, function(res){     var body = "";     res.on('data', function(data) {         body += data;     });     res.on('end', function() {         console.log(body);     })     res.on('error', function(e) {         console.log("Got error: " + e.message);     }); }); 

But that path "/restricted" requires a simple basic HTTP authentication. How do I add the credentials to authenticate? I couldn't find anything related to basic http authentication in NodeJS' manual. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to add the Authorization to the options like a header encoded with base64. Like:

var options = {     host: 'localhost',     port: 8000,     path: '/restricted',     headers: {      'Authorization': 'Basic ' + new Buffer(uname + ':' + pword).toString('base64')    }          };