FrisbyJS - Basic HTTP authentication

[thesailored]

FrisbyJS help: I need syntax for a Basic HTTP authentication to a server using an id and password. Simple?

[vlucas]

There is an auth method that does this: https://github.com/vlucas/frisby/blob/master/lib/frisby.js#L278

[thesailored]

Uuuuuuuuuuuuu rock! I'm obviously a noob. I've been in tech 20 years...this is cool stuff. Is there any best place for learning frisby (e.g. man pages, manuals, forums)? So far all I'm finding is github is the best.

//
// HTTP Basic Auth
//
// @param string username
// @param string password
//
Frisby.prototype.auth = function(user, pass) {
authHash = new Buffer(user + ':' + pass).toString('base64');
this.addHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' + authHash);
return this;
};

[thesailored]

vlucas, Could you please provide me with more info on how to get this to work? I'm struggling with how to tell it which url to use.

var user = 'myUserName'
var password = 'thePassword'
var urlHere = 'http://myserver.net:8080';

//HTTP Basic Auth
// @param string username
// @param string password
Frisby.prototype.auth = function(user, pass) {
authHash = new Buffer(user + ':' + pass).toString('base64');
this.addHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' + authHash);
return this;
};

[RomanManz]

Hi thesailored,

if you are still interested, if you just call the auth function after the post/put/get, then it works, e.g.
frisby.create('authorization test')
.get('http://testservice.com')
.auth('username', 'secret', false)
...

Although i am not sure what the third argument (sendImmediate) would be used for.

Regards
Roman