Access resources requiring authentication

[samperd]

Is there a way to access resources requiring authentication?

[hannesaddec]

What kind of authentication are you referring to ? HTTP, Cookies, SSL, Shibboleth OpenID, CAS?

[justb4]

At least HTTP Basic Auth is used a lot, that would be a start. I take it that you need the ability to add credentials for a Resource URL? You could try to encode it in the URL like http://username:password@example.com/, not sure this will work in GHC, but also exposes creds via UI.

So, good point: could start adding optional user/password fields for a Resource.

[justb4]

Finally this feature will be implemented! Planned:

• generic/extensible Resource Auth design
• implementation for HTTP Basic Auth

Current thinking:

• new column/field for Resource auth
• auth field stores encrypted JSON structure
• auth JSON structure identifies Auth Method and Data properties
• Auth Method id drives implementation

Something like:

{
method: 'basicauth',
data: {
   username: 'rscuser',
   password: 'rscpasswd'
 }
}

The method id basicauth will direct the implementation to a BasicAuth class to use which fills in the proper headers etc.

[justb4]

Fixed via #259 , available on https://demo.geohealthcheck.org/