basicAuthFile

Protects an imhttp input with HTTP Basic Authentication using an htpasswd file.

This parameter applies to imhttp: HTTP input module.

Name:

basicAuthFile

Scope:

input

Type:

string

Default:

none

Required?:

no

Introduced:

Not specified

Description

imhttp accepts Authorization: Basic credentials for the input when this parameter is set. The htpasswd file is read line-by-line and blank lines or # comments are ignored.

For safety, the Basic-auth header is capped at 2048 Base64 characters. That is already larger than practical Basic-auth credentials, but small enough to keep the parser on a fixed stack buffer and reject oversized headers outright.

Input usage

input(
    type="imhttp"
    endpoint="/ingest"
    basicAuthFile="/etc/rsyslog/htpasswd"
)

See also

See also imhttp: HTTP input module.

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