How to do request HTTP Digest auth with Node.JS? - node.js

Question

I have to write some code with Node.JS for an API documentation, but I tried the last few days all the solutions I could found on the web (including Stack of course) without succes...
My API use HTTP Digest Auth and that's the problem, I was able to connect, that's was not a big deal but everytime I got the same return :
Got response : 401
HTTP Digest Authentication required for "api.example.com"
You can show my base code below without auth! Because I don't know what I can do after all the try I did :
var http = require('http')
var options = {
host: 'api.example.com',
path: '/example/1.xml',
};
var request = http.get(options, function(res){
var body = "";
res.on('data', function(data){
body += data;
})
res.on('end', function(){
console.log('Got response : ' + res.statusCode);
console.log(body);
})
res.on('error', function(e){
console.log('Got error : ' +e.message);
});
});
One of my last try was to use this module https://npmjs.org/package/request but he doesn't work too as everytime I got 401 !
For more information I was able to connect and GET the information I needed from my API with Ruby, Python, php, and Java so I'm sure my API is working well and the information I pass are correct.
I use the last stable of Node v0.10.11 !
If someone can help me or have a solution up to date i will be glad.
EDIT :
I will add some details about my test with the module Mickael/request
First Try :
var request = require('request')
var options = {
'url': 'http://api.example.fr/example/1.xml',
'auth': {
'user': 'test',
'pass': 'test',
'sendImmediately': false
}
};
var request = request.get(options, function(error, response, body){
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200){
console.log('body : ' + body)
}
else{
console.log('Code : ' + response.statusCode)
console.log('error : ' + error)
console.log('body : ' + body)
}
});
Second Try :
var request = require('request')
request.get('http://api.example.fr/example/1.xml', function(error, response, body){
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200){
console.log('body : ' + body)
}
else{
console.log('Code : ' + response.statusCode)
console.log('error : ' + error)
console.log('body : ' + body)
}
}).auth('test', 'test', false);
but the return is still the same 401

Answer 1

Here's your example corrected to use request as per it's API.
var options = {
uri: 'http://api.example.fr/example/1.xml',
auth: {
user: 'test',
pass: 'test',
sendImmediately: false
}
};
request(options, function(error, response, body){
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200){
console.log('body : ' + body)
}
else{
console.log('Code : ' + response.statusCode)
console.log('error : ' + error)
console.log('body : ' + body)
}
});
The request chainable style API is a bit confusing (IMHO), but I believe you can make it work that way as well.

Answer 2

The digest auth in the request package seems to be incomplete.
You can try out: https://npmjs.org/package/http-digest-client ,its a pretty decent lightweight implementation for the digest authentication.
If you need to do a digest auth POST with a body message to be sent you can use request in conjunction with http-digest-client. After installing both just open up http-digest-client code under node-modules and replace its use of the http package with the request package api.

Answer 3

Try urllib it will work with simple and disgest auth.
const httpClient = require('urllib');
const url = 'https://site.domain.com/xmlapi/xmlapi';
const options = {
method: 'POST',
rejectUnauthorized: false,
// auth: "username:password" use it if you want simple auth
digestAuth: "username:password",
content: "Hello world. Data can be json or xml.",
headers: {
//'Content-Type': 'application/xml' use it if payload is xml
//'Content-Type': 'application/json' use it if payload is json
'Content-Type': 'application/text'
}
};
const responseHandler = (err, data, res) => {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
}
console.log(res.statusCode);
console.log(res.headers);
console.log(data.toString('utf8'));
}
httpClient.request(url, options, responseHandler);

Answer 4

your sample is work
var request = require('request')
request.get('http://api.example.fr/example/1.xml', function(error, response, body){
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200){
console.log('body : ' + body)
}
else{
console.log('Code : ' + response.statusCode)
console.log('error : ' + error)
console.log('body : ' + body)
}
}).auth('test', 'test', false);