Using a curl request with Angular $http

Question

I'm trying to use this api request in my angular application

    curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/articles.json \
    -v -u {email_address}:{password}

This does work in terminal but I honestly just don't know how to format that for the $http service in angular. Still new. Thank you for any help!

Edit: It is a GET request

Do you know what kind of authentication is performed while requesting this URL with curl? — Rémi Bantos
– Rémi Bantos, Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 21:28
I think they can use the email:password approach, API Token, or Oauth Token. developer.zendesk.com/rest_api/docs/core/… — David Baxter
– David Baxter, Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 22:14

Rémi Bantos · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-19 12:48:52Z

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It depends on the type of authentication that you have or want to perform to access this API. The simplest is probably BASIC authentication.

For a BASIC authentication, as per rfc2617, you have to provide a valid BASIC authorization header in your request.

This can be performed by setting this header once for all like this with AngularJS:

$http.defaults.headers.common.Authorization = 'Basic ' + basic-credentials;

Where basic-credentials is the base64 encoded user:password string.

So subsequent requests will use this header and will be authorized by this API.

If you haven't already read it, you can take a look at AngularJS $http documentation which describes how to set HTTP headers and use the $http service. It also provides an example of BASIC authentication.

edited Dec 19, 2015 at 12:48

answered Dec 18, 2015 at 22:46

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