Need 'curl -u <user:pass>...' functionality

[jwmurray]

I do not see any options to pass in basic authentication, similar to curl -u url ... -X POST

Is there a method to pass a user:password into the post call?

Thank you.

[mainrs]

Isn't that just a header value? Base64 encode user:pass and set the header Authorization to Basic <base64-value>, without the <>.

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[jwmurray]

Sir Windfield, I appreciate your answer. I have tried for several hours to make this work. I am sure I am just not building the Authorization field with the correct parameters. I will try again this weekend or put a clearer question up on stackoverflow.

[jwmurray]

Thank you for your help.

[peterhuene]

While manually putting the Authorization header together isn't a giant hurdle, it would be nice if surf implemented some auth utility methods, similar to basic_auth and bearer_auth from reqwest.

[mainrs]

Not sure if that is already a thing, but I think stuff like this definitely fits better into the http_types crate. @peterhuene

I'd be happy to help out on this, maybe some utility functions that accept a username and password and generate the right bearer string would be a good starting point. The header name is already inside the crate, available as a const.

[makarchuk]

I've implemented it via Middleware and it works like a charm

pub struct BasicAuth;

#[surf::utils::async_trait]
impl surf::middleware::Middleware for BasicAuth {
    async fn handle(
        &self,
        mut req: surf::Request,
        client: surf::Client,
        next: surf::middleware::Next<'_>,
    ) -> Result<surf::Response, http_types::Error> {
        if let Some(password) = req.url().password() {
            let header_value = format!(
                "Basic {}",
                base64::encode(
                    format!("{}:{}", req.url().username(), password),
                )
            );
            req.set_header("Authorization", header_value);
        }
        next.run(req, client).await
    }
}

[AlbanMinassian]

https://crates.io/crates/http-auth-basic