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Re: [Handle-info] 14.6.3 Basic Access Authentication

That's correct.

Robert

> On Feb 25, 2020, at 3:19 PM, Kun Lin <link@whitman.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks a lot. When I swith to use https, it works this time using cURL.
> Previous, I also tested sending the API calls to https://hdl.handle.net
> But I guess you must point the API calls to your actual handle server for
> basic authentication, right?
> Kun
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert R Tupelo-Schneck <schneck@cnri.reston.va.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00 PM
> To: Kun Lin <link@whitman.edu>
> Cc: Handle-Info@cnri.reston.va.us
> Subject: Re: [Handle-info] 14.6.3 Basic Access Authentication
> 
> The Handle server will ignore attempts to authenticate over plain http.
> Send your requests to https://...:8000/api/handles instead.  If using curl,
> you will generally need to add the -k or --insecure command-line option to
> have curl accept the self-signed certificate from your handle server.
> 
> Robert
> 
>> On Feb 24, 2020, at 6:58 PM, Kun Lin <link@whitman.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Robert
>> When I test API basic authentication, I added header "Authorization"
>> with "Basic " + base64 encoding of "10349/admin:{password}".  However,
>> when I do PUT request to create a handle, I got error
>> "responseCode": 406,
>>   "message": "HandleException (UNABLE_TO_AUTHENTICATE) No
>> authentication info provided"
>> 
>> Did I do anything wrong? I try username 10349/admin and the same
>> password in the handle admin java application and it works.
>> Kun
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert R Tupelo-Schneck <schneck@cnri.reston.va.us>
>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2020 9:56 AM
>> To: Kun Lin <link@whitman.edu>
>> Cc: Handle-Info@cnri.reston.va.us
>> Subject: Re: [Handle-info] 14.6.3 Basic Access Authentication
>> 
>> You create a handle record with an HS_SECKEY value.  So you'll need to
>> bootstrap, probably using the hdl-admintool and the
>> 300:0.NA/YOUR_PREFIX authentication.  Create a handle, such as
>> YOUR_PREFIX/ADMIN, and give it an HS_SECKEY value at the conventional
>> index 300.  You'll also need to ensure that YOUR_PREFIX/ADMIN is
>> authorized, which you could do by adding "YOUR_PREFIX/ADMIN" to
>> "server_admins" in config.dct, and restarting the handle server.
>> 
>> For Basic auth, the "username" will be the handle (such as
>> YOUR_PREFIX/ADMIN) and the password will be the data of the HS_SECKEY
>> value.
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>>> On Feb 24, 2020, at 12:52 PM, Kun Lin <link@whitman.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Referring to 14.6.3 Basic Access Authentication in tech manual, where
>>> do I set {username}:{password} that I could use to send basic auth
>>> for API access?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> Kun Lin
>>> Systems and Application Librarian
>>> Whitman College
>>> 
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