On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 02:47:25PM +0200, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: > I'm trying to use the http-client to talk to a Jira installation. > > Without much success. > > Jira is documented to support Basic authentication. However it defaults to > and advertices OAuth. For the case at hand, a script reading some data, it > OAuth looks like wasteful overhead. > > The idea is to supply an "Authorization" header right with the request.
http-client comes with built-in basic auth support. Just put a username and password in the URL's authorization component. > Any hints welcome. > > So far I have this: > > (define (insightc-query!2 uri . more) > (define (basic-auth username pw) > (string-append > "Basic " > (basic-auth-param-subunparser `((username . ,username) (password . > ,pw)))) > #;`#(Basic ((username . ,username) (password . ,pw))) > #;`#(Basic (,(basic-auth-param-subunparser `((username . ,username) > (password . ,pw))))) > ) > (let* ((uri (update-uri uri host: "localhost" port: 7070 path: (append > (uri-path uri) more))) > (username "jwi") > (pw (call-with-input-file ".password" read)) > (hdr (headers `((authorization ,(basic-auth username pw))))) > (req (make-request uri: uri headers: hdr))) > (call-with-response req (lambda (x) #f) insightc-response-handler))) > > Error: (unparse-headers) could not unparse "Authorization" header (#("Basic > and... ...=" Error: (unparse-headers) could not unparse "Authorization" > header (#("Basic and... ...=" > Call history: > > intarweb.scm:724: ##sys#print If you want to pass a raw string through the request unparser, convert it to a blob. Then it will be taken as-is, iirc. Cheers, Peter
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