How can I test the basic authentication in <http://ktor.io/quickstart/guides/api.html#authenticatio...

# ktor

[holgerbrandl]

How can I test the basic authentication in http://ktor.io/quickstart/guides/api.html#authentication using the IDE rest client? I’ve tried

POST <http://user:password@localhost:8080/snippets>
Content-Type: application/json
WWW-Authenticate: Basic myrealm

{
  "snippet": {
    "text": "heyho"
  }
}

which works, but I was wondering if I could also put the credentials into the request header in some way?

[cy]

In order to send credentials for BASIC authentication, a client must send a header Authorization: Basic $BASE64_USER_PASS

[cy]

As far as I remember you can generate it by "Generate Authorization Header"

[holgerbrandl]

cool thanks!

[cy]

Please note that there is no need for client to send WWW-Authenticate header: it will be ignored by a server anyway

[holgerbrandl]

Thanks for pointing out that detail.