http-get-account

Protocol: http.get with an account

user= and password= send an account in Basic. Here the account is optional: one collector serves a page with an account and a page without.

How to read it

• need('protocol:http:user', 'optional'): a standard variable of banshee, set in the tree, here optional. Unset, it reads ''.
• An account is never sent by itself: the call names it, user=$user, password=$password. A user that reads '' sends no account, so the line needs no condition.
• protocol:http:password is a secret: it goes into a call, never into a value or a message. Passed to value or fail, the validation refuses it; sent over http://, it stops the collector. Use https://.
• The answer is not a secret: the password went in a header.

To adapt it

• An API that wants a token instead: need('protocol:http:token') and headers=array('Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $token).