Send authentication headers with Node http post request

Question

I have made a http client using Node that sends a post request. However the service has NTLM authentication enabled. How do I add my username and password in the post request ?

var http=require('http')
var options = {
    host: 'kmserver28',
    port: 3535,
    path: '/Alto/Post/PostFetchWS.asmx/FetchPosts',
    method: 'POST'
};

var req = http.request(options, function(res){
    console.log('status: ' + res.statusCode);
    console.log('headers: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    res.on('data', function(chunk){
        console.log("body: " + chunk);
    });
});

req.on('error', function(e) {
    console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);
});

// write data to request body
req.write('data\n');
req.write('data\n');
req.end();

quack · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-27 21:03:04Z

1

Came across this while trying to get basic authorization working. I was able to get it working by adding an authorization header in the options object. Mine was for basic, but NTLM should be similar, I believe:

var api_options = {
host: process.env.API_HOST,
path: process.env.API_PATH,
method: 'POST',
headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(body),
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + new Buffer(process.env.API_USERNAME + ':' + process.env.API_PASSWORD).toString('base64')
}

answered Feb 27, 2017 at 21:03

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