Scott Prater <prater@...> writes:

> 
> Stefano --
> 
> Are you ingesting the datastreams as managed datastreams, or as redirect 
> or external datastreams?
> 
> If the former, once Fedora ingests the FOXML, the object is referred to 
> by its internal Fedora URI, and no source URLs or passwords are exposed 
> in any object export.
> 
> If the datastreams are managed, then you may want to take a compromise 
> approach: fetch them to the local machine using curl or some such tool, 
> then ingest the local file.  Once it's ingested, you can delete the 
> local file.
> 
> Managed datastreams are usually preferred to external or redirect 
> datastreams;  there are use cases for external and redirect datastreams 
> (which is why they exist), but the normal case is to store datastreams 
> as managed.
> 


I can't afford to have this datastream managed by Fedora, because 
it's several megabytes large and there are over a million of them. 

@Ben: I actually figured out the certificate issue, but still if an image 
fails, 
I can see log reports mentioning the URL with username and 
password included.

As said, the safest way I found is to have a redirect, so the end client can 
deal with authentication; but I'd prefer to have the resources as 
External ones so I can use Fedora as the only gateway to all resources. 

My question is: is there a plan to have Fedora support basic HTTP 
authentication through headers? 

By the way, I also found out that Fedora strips off the port number of the host 
when accessing an External resource. 

Thanks
sc 




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