Faraday.get and basic auth

[jordansissel]

I can't seem to get Faraday.get to accept the user:pass@host syntax from a url and respect it.

Reproducing with Faraday 0.9.0

Faraday.get("http://foo:bar@localhost:3333/test")

The "server"

% nc -l localhost 3333
GET /test HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Faraday v0.9.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3
Accept: */*
Connection: close
Host: localhost:3333

I expected an Authentication header, or perhaps an error that auth wasn't supported.

I couldn't find docs on the Faraday.get method on rubydoc.info for the Faraday module: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/faraday/Faraday - so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

If you point me in the write direction, I am happy to write documentation for this method.

[O-I]

There are several ways you can set authentication headers with Faraday. One way is to initialize a Faraday::Connection instance and use the basic_auth helper method:

conn = Faraday.new(url: 'http://example.com') # create a new Connection with base URL
conn.basic_auth('user', 'pass')               # set the Authentication header
conn.get('/foo')                              # GET http://example.com/foo

You could also use middleware:

conn = Faraday.new(url: 'http://example.com') do |builder|
  builder.use Faraday::Request::Retry
  builder.use Faraday::Request::BasicAuthentication, 'user', 'pass'
  builder.use Faraday::Response::Logger
  builder.use Faraday::Adapter::NetHttp
end

conn.get('/foo')

or:

Faraday.new(url: 'http://example.com') do |builder|
  builder.request  :retry
  builder.request  :basic_authentication, 'user', 'pass'
  builder.response :logger
  builder.adapter  :net_http
end

conn.get('/foo')

Intridea has a nice blog post on basic Faraday usage that's a few years old but still relevant.

Hope it helps some,
O-I

[mislav]

Thanks @O-I for the helpful examples.

@jordansissel For now, please use this form:

conn = Faraday.new('http://example.com')
conn.basic_auth('user', 'pass')
conn.get('/foo')

Sorry for the trouble.

[jordansissel]

Thanks for the pointers, all! It helped me get things working. ❤️❤️❤️

On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, Mislav Marohnić notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thanks @O-I https://github.com/O-I for the helpful examples.

@jordansissel https://github.com/jordansissel For now, please use this
form:

conn = Faraday.new('http://example.com')
conn.basic_auth('user', 'pass')
conn.get('/foo')

Sorry for the trouble.

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[mislav]

This was also reported as #343.

[grosser]

simpler:
Faraday.get('http://localhost:3000', nil, authorization: "Bearer 1123")

[simon1tan]

That did not work, try "Request::BasicAuth"

conn = Faraday.new(url: 'http://example.com') do |builder|
  builder.use Faraday::Request::Retry
  builder.use Faraday::Request::BasicAuth, 'user', 'pass'
  builder.use Faraday::Response::Logger
  builder.use Faraday::Adapter::NetHttp
end

[iMacTia]

@simon1tan the auth middleware recently changed, could you please report this in a separate new issue specifying which version of Faraday you're using and the error message you see, if any?

[jonesnc]

I think the basic_auth method has been renamed to set_basic_auth in more recent versions.