Re: http-client egg and authentication

[Christian Himpe]

Dear All,

so I found this recent StackOverflow issue: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72904388/how-do-i-use-http-basic-auth-with-http-client
 based on which I tried to use `make-uri` and pass the URI record (including 
credentials) to the http-client. This also gives a 403 reply from the server. I 
also tried manually encoding `"myuser:mypass"` as base64 without use.

As a sidenote, using `uri-common`, I was not able to get a slash between port 
and path from `make-uri`; I had to use `(update-uri (uri-reference ...) ...)`.

@Vasilij: Thanks for testing and explaining.

Best

Christian


Christian Himpe schrieb am 2022-09-25:
> Dear All,

> I am exploring the use of the http-client egg ( 
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/http-client ) for communicating with a 
> database server. For this I need some basic authentication, which I did not 
> get to work. I tried including:

> (determine-username/password (lambda (uri realm) (values "myuser" "mypass")))

> (see http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/http-client#authentication-support ), 
> which returns a 403 (Forbidden). However, authenticated communication works 
> with the server from the shell with "curl" using the argument "--user 
> myuser:mypass" ( https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-u ).

> I assume I am missing, overlooking or doing something wrong here. Does 
> somebody have experience with this, or know some sample code?

> Thank You

> Christian