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Asked: 2026-05-31T04:15:25+00:00

I am experiencing a problem while POSTing to a resource which is protected by

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I am experiencing a problem while POSTing to a resource which is protected by basic access authentication.
Here is the code, I am using @mikeal’s request:

request.post({
  uri: "http://user:password@mysite.com/resource",
  json: {
    "id": "1",
    "par1": "a",
    "par2": "b"
  }
}, function (error, response, body) {
  console.log(error);
  console.log(response);
  console.log(body);
});

I have { [Error: Parse Error] bytesParsed: 0 } in error and undefined in both response and body. If I remove the “user:password” part I correctly get a 401 HTTP Basic: Access denied.

Do you know if there’s a way to POST JSON to a protected resource like in my case? If not, I believe I’ll have to go the http module way, but I’m leaving that as a final resource since it’s a lot more verbose.

UPDATE: To have this as simple as possible I’ve moved this file in a new directory and did a npm install request. The problem went away, I checked from where the byteParsed come from and found it’s in “formidable” which is required by express, which I had in the directory where I was running this test. A bit confused right now.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You must add an header to your request with this rules:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

    Basically you must encode the string: username:password in base64 and add encoded string in an http header:

    Authorization: Basic “Base64(username:password)”

    I don’t know if is possible add header with jquery or javascript. Sorry.

    Look here: http://api.jquery.com/extending-ajax/#Transports

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