ltm rule command HTTP password

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HTTP::password
       Returns the password part of HTTP basic authentication.

SYNOPSIS
       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

	    * Returns the password part of HTTP basic authentication.

RETURN VALUE
VALID DURING
       CACHE_REQUEST, CACHE_RESPONSE, HTTP_REQUEST, HTTP_REQUEST_DATA,
       HTTP_REQUEST_SEND, HTTP_RESPONSE, HTTP_RESPONSE_CONTINUE,
       HTTP_RESPONSE_DATA

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]
	}

HINTS
SEE ALSO
CHANGE LOG
       @BIGIP-9.0.0 --First introduced the command.



BIG-IP				  2017-01-31			      iRule(1)