XQuery/Basic Authentication

Motivation You want to use a very basic login process over a secure network such as a secure Intranet or over an SSL connection. Method We will used the base64 encoding and decoding tools to generate the right strings. xquery version "1.0"; let $user := 'Aladdin' let $password := 'open sesame' let $credentials := concat($user, ':', $password) let $encode := util:string-to-binary($credentials) return <results> <user>{$user}</user> <password>{$password}</password> <encode>{$encode}</encode> </results> Returns the following: <results> <user>Aladdin</user> <password>open sesame</password> <encode>QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==</encode> </results> Sample HTTP GET using Basic Authentication xquery version "1.0"; declare function local:basic-get-http($uri,$username,$password) { let $credentials := concat($username,":",$password) let $credentials := util:string-to-binary($credentials) let $headers := <headers> <header name="Authorization" value="Basic {$credentials}"/> </headers> return httpclient:get(xs:anyURI($uri),false(), $headers) }; let $host := "http://localhost:8080" let $path := "/exist/rest/db/apps/terms/data/1.xml" let $uri := concat($host, $path) let $user := 'my-login' let $password := 'my-password' return local:basic-get-http($uri,$username,$password) References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication Wikipedia Entry on Basic Authentication