# How to pass basic authentication details in http filter plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-basic-authentication-details-in-http-filter-plugin/201246>\
**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")\
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**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")

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Step 3 of [this](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-basic-authentication/) shows you how to encode the string.

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