Top "Http-authentication" questions

HTTP authentication is a method for a HTTP user agent to provide a user name and a certain proof confirming the user's identity when making a request.

Java: fetch URL with HTTPBasic Authentication

I'm doing some simple HTTP authentication and am getting a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character(s) in message header value: …

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determining web http authentication methods

How do you determine if a REST webservice is using Basic, Kerberos, NTLM, or one of the many other authentication …

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IIS as reverse proxy

I'm looking into to having IIS doing authentication in an application being executed on a J2EE server (JBoss). Is …

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Rails: Accessing the username/password used for HTTP Basic Auth?

I'm building a basic API where user information can be retrieved after that user's login and password are correctly sent. …

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Correct HTTP code for authentication token expiry - 401 or 403?

401 seems to be used to indicate an authentication failure whereas 403 for an authorization failure (which means authentication succeeded?) In case …

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HTTP Authentication - WWW-Authenticate header - multiple realms

Does anyone have any experience of supporting multiple realms in HTTP Authentication? The Microsoft website states: Each authenticate response header …

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Very simple authentication using one-time cookie on nginx

I have a site intended only for private consumption by 3 coders. It's simple HTML served by nginx directly but intended …

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How to show an image which is secured by http authentication

How can i show an image from a server with standard http protection without showing the authentication window? I now …

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HTTP authentication between devise and iphone app

I'm new to ruby on rails but I want to send the data from my SQlite database from my iphone …

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RTSP Authentication : digest issue

I need to authenticate my RTSP stream to a streaming server, here is the challenge : RTSP/1.0 401 Unauthorized WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="…

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