# Http\_poller authentication problem
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-authentication-problem/83930
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-authentication-problem/83930 "2017-04-27T19:00:23Z")
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### Author:  [@Fan\_Dong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fan_Dong)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-authentication-problem/83930/1 "2017-04-27T19:00:23Z")
- Logstash 5.1
- Problem: I cannot seem to get http\_poller authentication working. For example I can use curl -u user:pass my\_rest\_api to get the output but the same always fail with the following logstash conf. The error is HTTP 401 - 'this request requires http authentication'.
Any insight of why?
```
input {
http_poller {
urls => {
experiments => {
method => "get"
url => "my_rest_api"
auth => {
user => "user"
password => "pass"
}
}
}
request_timeout => 10
interval => 3600
codec => "plain"
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-authentication-problem/83930/2 "2017-05-25T19:14:36Z")
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