How to use http client in Node js if there is basic authorization

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As per title  how do I do that   Here is my code    var http   require  http        to access this url I need to put basic auth  var client   http createClient 80   www example com     var request   client request  GET               host    www example com      request end    request on  response   function  response      console log  STATUS      response statusCode     console log  HEADERS      JSON stringify response headers      response setEncoding  utf8      response on  data   function  chunk        console log  BODY      chunk

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I came across this recently  Which among Proxy-Authorization and Authorization headers to set depends on the server the client is talking to  If it is a Webserver  you need to set Authorization and if it a proxy  you have to set the Proxy-Authorization header

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This code works in my case  after a lot of research  You will require to install the request npm package    var url    http   api example com api v1  param1 1 amp param2 2   var auth    Basic     new Buffer username         password  toString  base64    exports checkApi   function  req  res           do the GET request     request get           url  url          headers                 Authorization   auth                  function  error  response  body            if error           console error  Error while communication with api and ERROR is        error          res send error                 console log  body      body           res send body

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An easier solution is to use the user pass host format directly in the URL    Using the request library   var request   require  request        username    john       password    1234       url    http       username         password     www example com    request                url   url            function  error  response  body               Do more stuff with  body  here            I ve written a little blogpost about this as well

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From Node js http request API Docs  you could use something similar to  var http   require  http     var request   http request   hostname    www example com                                auth    user password                                                            function  response                                 console log  STATUS      response statusCode                                console log  HEADERS      JSON stringify response headers                                 response setEncoding  utf8                                 response on  data   function  chunk                                   console log  BODY      chunk                                                                   request end

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You have to set the Authorization field in the header   It contains the authentication type Basic in this case and the username password combination which gets encoded in Base64   var username    Test   var password    123   var auth    Basic     Buffer from username         password  toString  base64       new Buffer   is deprecated from v6     auth is   Basic VGVzdDoxMjM    var header     Host    www example com    Authorization   auth   var request   client request  GET        header

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var http   require  http    var url    http   api example com api v1  param1 1 amp param2 2    var options         host   http   api example com       port  80      method   GET       path  url   I don t know for some reason i have to use full url as a path     auth  username         password     http get options  function rs        var result           rs on  data   function data            result    data              rs on  end   function             console log result

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for what it s worth I m using node js 0 6 7 on OSX and I couldn t get  Authorization  auth to work with our proxy  it needed to be set to  Proxy-Authorization  auth my test code is    var http   require  http    var auth    Basic     new Buffer  username password   toString  base64    var options         host   proxyserver       port  80      method  GET       path   http   www google com       headers            Proxy-Authorization   auth          Host   www google com            http get options  function res        console log res       res pipe process stdout

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var username    Ali   var password    123   var auth    Basic     new Buffer username         password  toString  base64    var request   require  request    var url    http   localhost 5647 contact session     request get        url   url      headers              Authorization    auth            function error  response  body          console log  body      body

[node.js] How to use http.client in Node.js if there is basic authorization

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