Setting Basic Auth in Mocha and SuperTest

Question

I'm trying to set us a test to verify the username and password of a path blocked by the basic auth of a username and password.

it('should receive a status code of 200 with login', function(done) {
    request(url)
        .get("/staging")
        .expect(200)
        .set('Authorization', 'Basic username:password')
        .end(function(err, res) {
            if (err) {
                throw err;
            }

            done();
        });
});

Answer 1

Using the auth method

SuperTest is based on SuperAgent which provides the auth method to facilitate Basic Authentication:

it('should receive a status code of 200 with login', function(done) {
    request(url)
        .get('/staging')
        .auth('the-username', 'the-password')
        .expect(200, done);
});

Source: http://visionmedia.github.io/superagent/#basic-authentication

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PS: You can pass done straight to any of the .expect() calls

Answer 2

The username:password part must be base64 encoded

You can use something like

.set("Authorization", "basic " + new Buffer("username:password").toString("base64"))