https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163867
--- Comment #1 from [email protected] --- (In reply to leo from comment #0) > Dear LibreOffice community, > > I recently set up a languagetool server on a remote host using an nginx > reverse proxy. In the reverse proxy you can ask for authentication before > allowing a request to go through to the languagetool HTTP server. I am not > sure which version is the earliest affected, but if you need that > information, I could do some tests. > > Using the following curl command I can make requests to the server and get a > response: > > curl -u "user:password" --data "language=en-US&text=a simple test" > > https://example.com/v2/check > Libreoffice seems to not allow specifying credentials for HTTP basic auth > and it also seems to not work if I use the mostly deprecated method of > specifying the credentials like this and leaving the rest empty: > > Base URL: https://user:[email protected]/v2 > > Since this would be the only option to secure a (not local) languagetool > server, I'd deem this a necessary feature, at least for that usecase. > I might have also done the configuration wrong in Libreoffice, but I > couldn't really find the issue or any help on this online. Okay, it seems that the issue was my fault. I didn't test this correctly and used a sentence that the free version of languagetool doesn't detect. The requests do definetly go through using the deprecated method: > Base URL: https://user:[email protected]/v2 It might still be useful to provide alternatives since Chromium has deprecated this entirely and Mozilla has implemented some restrictions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentication#access_using_credentials_in_the_url -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
