Consuming get API in nodejs with authentication using https

Question

How can I send Id and password means basic authentication to below code. I mean where I need to put id/pass in below code? My API needs basic authentication

const https = require('https');
https.get('https://rws322s213.infosys.com/AIAMFG/rest/v1/describe', (resp) => {
 let data = '';
 resp.on('data', (chunk) => {
 data += chunk;
 });
 resp.on('end', () => {
 console.log(JSON.parse(data).explanation);
 });
}).on("error", (err) => {
 console.log("Error: " + err.message);
});

Answer 1

To request Basic authentication, a client passes a http Authorization header to the server. That header takes the form

 Authorization: Basic Base64EncodedCredentials

Therefore, your question is "how to pass a header with a https.get() request?"

It goes in options.headers{} and you can put it there like this:

const encodedCredentials = /* whatever your API requires */ 
const options = {
 headers: {
 'Authorization' : 'Basic ' + encodedCredentials
 }
}
const getUrl = https://rws322s213.infosys.com/AIAMFG/rest/v1/describe'
https.get (getUrl, options, (resp) => {
 /* handle the response here. */
})

Answer 2

const https = require('https');
const httpsAgent = new https.Agent({
 rejectUnauthorized: false,
});
// Allow SELF_SIGNED_CERT, aka set rejectUnauthorized: false
let options = {
 agent: httpsAgent
}
let address = "10.10.10.1";
let path = "/api/v1/foo";
let url = new URL(`https://${address}${path}`);
url.username = "joe";
url.password = "password123";
let apiCall = new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
 var data = '';
 https.get(url, options, res => {
 res.on('data', function (chunk){ data += chunk }) 
 res.on('end', function () {
 resolve(data);
 })
 }).on('error', function (e) {
 reject(e);
 });
});
try {
 let result = await apiCall;
} catch (e) {
 console.error(e);
} finally {
 console.log('We do cleanup here');
}