Hi Djibril, just a note, GET requests / URLs are often cached by intermediary caches/proxies/servers on the web (as per the HTTP spec) so if you do this you should consider your credentials to be public knowledge.
regards, Lars On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 at 12:23, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is not really a dhis2 thing so much as a change in browser > behaviour. In times gone by when you presented a url like > "https://admin:distr...@play.dhis2.org/dev/api/me" the browser would > take that url and create the basic authentication header that Jason > refers to. > > After a couple of wobbles along the way since 2014, this is no longer > the default behaviour on any of the major browsers. Its really > because URLs find themselves in history, bookmarks, log files etc. > which are not appropriate places to be storing credentials. > > (sections 3.2.1 and 7.5 of https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt) > > Chrome held out the longest, but is now also compliant with the new > behaviour. > > On 8 June 2018 at 10:51, DJIBRIL Hakim <djib.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ok I see the point of view > > thank you jason! > > > > 2018-06-08 9:35 GMT+00:00 Jason Pickering <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com>: > >> > >> Hi Hakim > >> > >> No, that is not possible and would not be a good idea since your > >> credentials would be visible in the request itself. > >> You will need to use a basic authentication header for this as described > >> in the manual: > >> > >> > https://docs.dhis2.org/master/en/developer/html/webapi_authentication.html > >> > >> Regards, > >> Jason > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:19 AM DJIBRIL Hakim <djib.ha...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi All, > >>> Please I would like to know if is it possible to add authentification > >>> directly in URL > >>> Example: username:password@[dhisUrl]/api/..... > >>> > >>> Best > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > >>> Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jason P. Pickering > >> email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com > >> tel:+46764147049 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Lars Helge Øverland Technical lead, DHIS 2 University of Oslo l...@dhis2.org https://www.dhis2.org
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