How to test REST API using Chrome s extension Advanced Rest Client

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Following the instructions at the link below  I successfully built a REST API for my Django application  http   django-rest-framework org tutorial quickstart   I can test it by doing the following from the Unix prompt   curl -H  Accept  application json  indent 4  -u root myPassword http   www myWebsite com users    It works     However  I would like to use the Chrome extension Advanced Rest Client to test this same functionality  I have installed the extension  but I don t know where how to put the fields  When I make my educated-guess  as you can see in the screenshot   it rejects it saying  Authentication credentials were not provided     How where should I specify my parameters to the REST API

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This seems a very old question  but I am providing an answer  so that it might help others  You can specify the variables in the second screen in the form section  as shown below or in the RAW format by appending the variables as shown in the second image       If your variable and variable values are valid  you should see a successful response in the response section

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From the screenshot I can see that you want to pass  user  and  password  values to the service  You have send the parameter values in the request header part which is wrong  The values are sent in the request body and not in the request header  Also your syntax is wrong  Correct syntax is    user   user val   password   password val    Also check what is the the content type  It should match with the content type you have set to your service

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With latest ARC for GET request with authentication need to add a raw header named Authorization authtoken   Please find the screen shot  Get request with authentication and query params  To add Query param click on drop down arrow on left side of URL box

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Add authorization header and click pencil button to enter username and passwords

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The shortcut format generally used for basic auth is http   username password example com path  You will also want to include the accept header in the request

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The easy way to get over of this authentication issue is by stealing authentication token using Fiddler   Steps   Fire up fiddler and browser  Navigate browser to open the web application  web site  and do the required authentication  Open Fiddler and click on HTTP 200 HTML page request   On the right pane  from request headers  copy cookie header parameter value   Open REST Client and click on  Header form  tab and provide the cookie value from the clip board    Click on SEND button and it shall fetch results

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in the header section you have to write  Authorization  Basic aG9sY67890vbGNpbQ    where string after basic is the 64bit encoding value of your username password  php example of getting the header values is   echo  Authorization  Basic     base64 encode  myUser myPassword     n b  I assumed your authentication method as basic  which can be different as well

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The discoverability is dismal  but it s quite clever how Advanced Rest Client handles basic authentication  The shortcut abraham mentioned didn t work for me  but a little poking around revealed how it does it   The first thing you need to do is add the Authorization header    Then  a nifty little thing pops up when you focus the value input  note the  construct  box in the lower right     Clicking it will bring up a box  It even does OAuth  if you want    Tada  If you leave the value field blank when you click  construct   it will add the Basic part to it  I assume it will also add the necessary OAuth stuff  too  but I didn t try that  as my current needs were for basic authentication   so you don t need to do anything

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