Accessing Https, host requires authentication message

SGaist

You can have no authentication to talk with the entry point for your web service or you can have Basic Auth, Token, OAuth etc.

Check with your colleague if he implemented anything like that

roseicollis

@SGaist Hi, I asked about it and my workmate told me that we use cookies and that maybe its something like the Token you said. To understand better the behaviour: in every request I do to the webservice I have to send the username and password so each time it 'logs in'

May it be because the webservice returns a 204 (which is a 'Ok but I have nothing for you') and the Qt interprets it as it is not ok??

SGaist

Wait, then what do you mean it doesn't work ? If you get 204 it means that you succeeded but you won't receive any data.

roseicollis

Hi. Sorry I was not sure if was a 204. My workmate told me that maybe this was the cause but then I tried something: If I put the url where I do the request on firefox for example, it is ok and it returns the json list so I suppose that it is not a 204. But this url in my code returns what I said about Host requires authentication and I suppose that its something I'm doing wrong with my code and Qt.

SGaist

Can you show how you are doing these requests ?

roseicollis

Hi Sgaist,

Sorry for answering so late but I was outside. The request more specifically is this:

_Url= "https://myweb.com/Ob/places?INFO1=ABCDEF&password=012345&username=Mario";
QNetworkRequest request(_Url);
QNetworkReply *myReply = nam->get(request);

I don't do any other thing...

SGaist

It's not how you should do the request, search for "basic http authentication" and QNetworkAccessManager::authenticationRequired

roseicollis

@SGaist oh sorry!! I think you mean this:
I tried with:

Constructor:

nam = new QNetworkAccessManager(this);
QObject::connect ( nam, SIGNAL(authenticationRequired(QNetworkReply*,QAuthenticator*)), this, SLOT(onAuthenticationRequestSlot(QNetworkReply*,QAuthenticator*)) );

And then this, but it never gets into here...

void WPConfigs12::onAuthenticationRequestSlot(QNetworkReply *aReply, QAuthenticator *aAuthenticator)
{
     qDebug() << "INSIDE ";
    aAuthenticator->setUser("Mario");
    aAuthenticator->setPassword("012345");
}

SGaist

You really should get more details from your colleague on how what he uses to handle user authentication

roseicollis

@SGaist Is it normal that the "INSIDE" qDebug message is not pritned? I mean... its like the connect doesn't work and maybe its because i did it wrong... (last time this happened to me was because I was working with threads and I forgot to start it so the connect failed.)

SGaist

Your connect statement looks fine. Do you have any error message on the console ?

roseicollis

@SGaist No, nothing...In the compile output there is nothing wrong. I just had QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to WizardPage2"WizardPage2", which already has a layout in Applicatiion output but this does not affect the program... and the connect itsself has anything it need to work because I have others that run with no problem. (Have what it needs = Q_OBJECT declared in header and so on).
That's why I asked if maybe I needed to start anything as it was a thread (If you work with threads and don't start them, you have the same problem)

SGaist

Unless you put your QNAM in a thread, no theres nothing special you need to do.
As a last restort, you can set the Authorization header yourself on the query

roseicollis

@SGaist THats so strange.... I hate when something seems to work fine but doesnt.. hehe
How do you set it with the query?

SGaist

Use setRawHeader from QNetworkRequest with Authorization as the name