basic authentication is not working

[hackwell]

Looks like that the basic authentication is not working, i get back an Unauthorized. The credentials are definitely correct and the default http request node works with the urls and the provided credentials.

[bartbutenaers]

Hi @Jörg,

I'm very sorry for the late reply! Seems I have missed a couple of issues, since I got no email notifications about them...

That is a weird problem, since the basic authentication is working fine on my Panasonic cameras. I will try to compare it with the http request node tomorrow evening, since you say that the latter node works fine. Will keep you informed !

Kind regards, Bart

[bartbutenaers]

Hi Jörg (@hackwell),

My first version of this decoder node was based on the httprequest node, so I was quite surprised in worked in your case only for the httprequest node. But now I remember that my last version uses another library under the hood:

• The httprequest node is based on the request library:

  var request = require("request");
  ...
  if (this.credentials && this.credentials.user) {
  opts.auth = {
         user: this.credentials.user,
         pass: this.credentials.password||""
  };
  }
  ...
  request(opts, function(err, res, body) {
  ...
  }

• And my decoder is based upon the follow-redirects library:

  var http = require("follow-redirects").http;
  var https = require("follow-redirects").https;
  ...
  if (this.credentials && this.credentials.user) {
   opts.auth = this.credentials.user+":"+(this.credentials.password||"");
  }
  ...
  ((/^https/.test(urltotest))?https:http).request(opts,function(res) {
  ...
  }

  Now to find out why the last library causes troubles in your case. Will have to google a bit further tomorrow ...