Does Google Go support decoding of basic access authentication calls? How do I get the username and password from the http.Request?
Go does not seem to intercept basic authentication when it is typed as an URL in a browser, but it does allow one to get it from some other applications calling it.
For example, using a simple Python code for HTTP JSON RPC:
from jsonrpc import ServiceProxy
access = ServiceProxy("http://user:pass@127.0.0.1:8080/")
print access.getinfo()
And in Go calling:
// r *http.Request
r.Header["Authorization"]
One gets this string:
[Basic dXNlcjpwYXNz]
And
dXNlcjpwYXNz
Base-64 decoded gives
user:pass
So some basic authentication in Go is possible, although it might not be something one can rely on.
There seems to be no way to get the user-provided authentication info, but you can provide the valid username and password for HTTP Basic Authentication by calling SetBasicAuth.