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Basic Authentication

HTTP Basic Authentication support with secure credential validation.

Configuration​

{
    "basic_auth_webhook": {
        "data_type": "json",
        "module": "log",
        "basic_auth": {
            "username": "admin",
            "password": "secret_password_123"
        }
    }
}

Usage​

Send requests with Basic Auth credentials:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/webhook/basic_auth_webhook \
  -u admin:secret_password_123 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"event": "test"}'

Or with explicit header:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/webhook/basic_auth_webhook \
  -H "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2VjcmV0X3Bhc3N3b3JkXzEyMw==" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"event": "test"}'

Features​

  • Standard HTTP Basic Auth (RFC 7617)
  • Base64 encoded credentials
  • Constant-time comparison (timing attack resistant)
  • Username and password validation
  • UTF-8 encoding with Latin-1 fallback for special characters
Character Encoding

Credentials are decoded using UTF-8 encoding by default. If UTF-8 decoding fails (e.g., for legacy clients), the system falls back to Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding.