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Bill_Kehn_27007
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Oct 14, 2017

Help with Passing Basic http authentication username/password in APM policy.

Hello,   I am trying to accomplish something rather basic in APM and seem to be stuck. I want to use a separate credential against APM internal DB and then map a generic credential to be used aga...
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Bill_Kehn_27007
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Oct 14, 2017

Well, I added an irule like this and it seems to work:

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { set logindata [b64encode "basic_user:basic_pass"] log local0. "FOUND A REQUEST, SETTING AUTH $logindata" HTTP::header replace Authorization "Basic $logindata" }

 

I was hoping there was some way within APM itself to do this without an irule.

 

-Bill