How to Use Http. Client in Node. Js If There Is Basic Authorization

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': ' 'Authorization': auth};
var request = client.request('GET', '/', header);

From Node.js http.request API Docs you could use something similar to

var http = require('http');

var request = http.request({'hostname': '
                            '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();

var username = "Ali";
var password = "123";
var auth = "Basic " + new Buffer(username + ":" + password).toString("base64");
var request = require('request');
var url = "";

request.get( {
    url : url,
    headers : {
        "Authorization" : auth
    }
  }, function(error, response, body) {
      console.log('body : ', body);
  } );

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 + "@";

request(
    {
        url : url
    },
    function (error, response, body) {
        // Do more stuff with 'body' here
    }
);

I've written a little blogpost about this as well.

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: '
    headers:{
        "Proxy-Authorization": auth,
        Host: ""
    } 
};
http.get(options, function(res) {
    console.log(res);
    res.pipe(process.stdout);
});

var http = require("http");
var url = "";

var options = {
    host: "",
    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);
    });
});

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

This code works in my case, after a lot of research. You will require to install the request npm package.

var url = "";
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);      

    });    
}

For those not using DNS and needs more depth (you can also use request instead of get by simply replacing get with request like so: http.request({ ... })):

http.get({ 
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: 443,
    path: '/books?author=spongebob',
    auth: 'user:p@ssword#'
 }, resp => {
    let data;

    resp.on('data', chunk => {
        data += chunk;
    });

    resp.on('end', () => console.log(data));
}).on('error', err => console.log(err));