Re: Httpapi and basic authentication

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Karen,

Please be aware that when you use basic authentication, your 
userid/password is sent over the network (or Internet) unencrypted. 
That unencrypted password is also included in the httpapi_debug.txt file 
that you sent.

According to the debug file you sent, your userid is set to:
"dR6atopr]yôusa/aif-s_}öicµ-M4ö" and your password is set to "Av ta2009".

It seems likely that this isn't right... that your userid/password is 
being messed up somehow.

If that really is your userid/password, then please make sure you change 
it -- you've just posted it publicly to be displayed on the web.  Anyone 
with access to a base64 decoder (which are freely available on the web) 
can see what your user/password is.

And if that really is your userid/password, I don't know why it's not 
working, except perhaps because you specified a "domain" with a slash -- 
that's not typically used in Basic authentication.  The domain thing is 
for Windows authentication, not Basic authentication, if that makes sense.

Good luck


Karen Weigel wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I am trying to consume a web service that requires authentication. I 
> have been trying to do basic authentication, but I have not been able to 
> get it to work. I have attached an httpapi debug file and a program 
> file. Assuming the userid and password are correct, can anyone see 
> anything I am doing wrong? (I attempted to change all of the identifying 
> information in both files including the encoded userid and password.)
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> Karen
>  
>  
>  
> 

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