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Send HTTP Basic Auth in request to origin

Convert a password sent by the client in the querystring into a Authorization header to your origin server.

VCL

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Compute@Edge

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  1. Rust
    // create a HashMap with a query string provided
    let mut qs_map: std::collections::HashMap<String, String> = req.get_query()?;


    // if we have the query param we need
    if qs_map.contains_key("user") && qs_map.contains_key("pw") {
        let auth_basic = format!(
            "Basic {}",
            base64::encode(format!(
                "{}:{}",
                qs_map.remove("user").unwrap(),
                qs_map.remove("pw").unwrap()
            ))
        );


        // - repopulate query string with anything remaining
        req.set_query(&qs_map)?;


        // Add Authorization header
        req.set_header(header::AUTHORIZATION, auth_basic);
    }