# How to pass basic authentication details in http filter plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [September 26, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246 "2019-09-26T13:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/1 "2019-09-26T13:48:46Z")
Hi, I am using logstash HTTP filter plugin. I want to pass basic authentication details such as username, and password in the request. Could you please suggest, how we can post a request using header, body, and basic-authentication in every single request? ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/2 "2019-09-26T15:40:17Z")
The http filter has options to supply the body and headers. Basic authentication is just another header. ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/3 "2019-09-26T16:12:52Z")
Do i use like below? http { url =\> "[https://myapi/v1/token](https://myapi/v1/token)" ``` verb => "POST" "BasicAuth" => { "Username" =>"xxxxx" "Password" => "dddaaaaa" } headers => { "Content-Type" => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" } body => { "grant_type" => "password" "username" => "user" "password" => "password" "scope" => "myscope" } ``` } ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/4 "2019-09-26T16:33:03Z")
No, basic authentication is just another header. There is no support in the filter to encode it for you. You would use something like ``` headers => { "Content-Type" => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" "Authorization" => "Basic aHR0cHdhdGNoOmY=" } ``` ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/5 "2019-09-26T19:41:53Z")
Hi , Thank you for your response .I have username and password but how to generate the token that is used along with Basic in 'Authorization'. ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/6 "2019-09-26T20:34:15Z")
Step 3 of [this](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-basic-authentication/) shows you how to encode the string. ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/7 "2019-09-26T21:09:48Z")
Hi, I am using post method and logstash http filter. I was used linux command to convert username:password to base64 encode and used in header section.I am getting error client\_error=\>"undefined method `encoding' for #Hash:0x68246" filter { http { url =\> "[https://myapi/v1/token](https://myapi/v1/token)" ``` verb => "POST" headers => { "Content-Type" => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" "Authorization" => "Basic Xh4NXidHdONjk=" } body => { "grant_type" => "password" "username" => "username" "password" => "password" "scope" => "54ff4" } ``` } } ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/8 "2019-09-26T21:24:53Z")
Where are you getting that error? Is it from logstash? From the API? Is there a stack trace? ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/9 "2019-09-26T21:31:03Z")
HI , I am getting error in logstash { "host" =\> "Zxxxxx", "@timestamp" =\> 2019-09-26T21:26:47.779Z, "tags" =\> [ [0] "\_httprequestfailure" ], "@version" =\> "1", "message" =\> "w\r" } ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/10 "2019-09-26T21:45:09Z")
I cannot find it in the code, but I do not think it makes sense to supply the body as a hash when you are using a text encoding. If the body were a string then calling String.encode on it would make sense. What actual text does the API need in the body of the request. ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/11 "2019-09-26T22:00:53Z")
I was tested with curl command and its working curl --silent --write-out "HTTPSTATUS:%{http\_code}" -H "Authorization: Basic Xh4NXidHdONjk=" -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' '[https://myapi/v1/token](https://myapi/v1/token)' -d 'grant\_type'='password' -d 'username'={username} -d 'password'={password} -d 'scope'=${scope}) But when I am using below, it's throwing error http { url =\> "[https://myapi/v1/token](https://myapi/v1/token)" ```auto verb => "POST" headers => { "Content-Type" => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" "Authorization" => "Basic Xh4NXidHdONjk=" } body => { "grant_type" => "password" "username" => "username" "password" => "password" "scope" => "54ff4" } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/12 "2019-09-26T22:03:31Z")
Try adding the option ``` body_format => "json" ``` ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/13 "2019-09-26T22:33:03Z")
No luck. I found other error filter{ http { url =\> "[https://myapi/v1/token](https://myapi/v1/token)"" ``` verb => "POST" headers => { "Content-Type" => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" "Accept" => "application/json" "Authorization" => "Basic Xh4NXidHdONjk=" } ``` body =\> { "grant\_type" =\> "password" "username" =\> "username" "password" =\> "password" "scope" =\> "54ff4" } body\_format =\>"json" target\_body =\> "response\_message" } } [2019-09-26T23:27:32,645][ERROR][logstash.filters.http] error during HTTP request {:url=\>"[https://myapi/v1/token](https://myapi/v1/token)", :code=\>400, :response=\>"{"error":"invalid\_request", "error\_description":"response\_type or grant\_type is required"}"} { "message" =\> "h\r", "@timestamp" =\> 2019-09-26T22:27:29.583Z, "@version" =\> "1", "host" =\> "Zxxxxx", "tags" =\> [ [0] "\_httprequestfailure" ] } ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/14 "2019-09-26T23:06:47Z")
OK, so please answer my question about what text the API expects to receive. What text does ``` curl --silent --write-out "HTTPSTATUS:%{http_code}" -H "Authorization: Basic Xh4NXidHdONjk=" -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' 'https://myapi/v1/token' -d 'grant_type'='password' -d 'username'={username} -d 'password'={password} -d 'scope'=${scope}) ``` generate in the request body. Once you have figured that out, put it in a string in the http filter using ``` body => "your body goes here" ``` ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/15 "2019-09-26T23:35:48Z")
Request would be like this `> curl -k -v -i -u : 'https://myapi/v3/token' -d 'grant_type=password&username=&password=< Password>&scope='` ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/16 "2019-09-27T19:36:04Z")
How can we send data in http filter that is being send in -d curl command. Lets assume below curl command example and in -d ,curl command sends "payload to send" ```auto curl -H "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" -d "payload to send" http://example .com ``` ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/17 "2019-09-27T20:01:07Z")
You can use ``` body => "payload to send" body_format => "text" ``` ---
**Author:** ![saroja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@saroja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saroja)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/18 "2019-10-03T12:50:02Z")
It is working find with ruby filter and similar code snippet is used. Thank you so much . With http filter it was really tough my situation so used ruby to get the details. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246/19 "2019-10-31T12:50:14Z")
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