HTTP::password

Description

Returns the password part of HTTP basic authentication.
As described in RFC2617 the username and password in basic authentication is sent by the client in the Authorization header. The client base64 encodes the username and password in the format of:
Authorization: Basic base64encoding(username:password)
The HTTP::username command parses and base64 decodes the username.
The HTTP::password command parses and base64 decodes the password.

Syntax

HTTP::password

HTTP::password

  • Returns the password part of HTTP basic authentication.

Examples

# Small chunk of an iRule for radius authentication
when HTTP_REQUEST {
  AUTH::username_credential $auth_sid [HTTP::username]
  AUTH::password_credential $auth_sid [HTTP::password]
}
when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
  set auth_sid [AUTH::start pam default_radius]
}