Digest Authentication Account

Overview

You can use this account type to connect the HTTP Client Snap with data sources that use the Digest Authentication account.

Account settings



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Field / Field set Type Description
Label

String

 Required. Specify a unique label for the account.

Default value: N/A

Example: Digest Authentication Account
Username

String/Expression

 Required. Specify the username for the Digest Authentication Account.
Note: To access the username for the HTTP Client Snap, enable expressions for the field and enter account.username.

Default value: N/A

Example: Snap_user
Password

String/Expression

 Required. Specify the password for the Digest Authentication Account.
Note: To access the password for the HTTP Client Snap, enable expressions for the field and enter account.password.

Default value: N/A

Example: Encrypted
Use preemptive auth

Checkbox

 Enable the checkbox if you want the Snap to send the authorization header directly to the endpoint using the specific information.

Default status: Deselected
Realm

String/Expression

 Appears when you select the Use Preemptive Auth checkbox.

Specify the realm mentioned in the server’s WWW-Authenticate response header.

Default value: N/A

Example: [email protected]
Client Nonce

String/Expression

 Appears when you select the Use Preemptive Auth checkbox.

Specify an opaque quoted ASCII-only string value provided by the client and used by both the client and server to avoid chosen plaintext attacks, to provide mutual authentication, and to provide some message integrity protection.

Default value: N/A

Example: 09312aead131413f9e2e0d0a3861e825

Troubleshooting

Error Reason Resolution
The username cannot contain the ': character. HttpClient5 library does not support colons in Usernames when using Basic Authentication. Provide a username without the colon ':” character and retry.