Android Question Protect files on server

Emme Developer · Feb 9, 2018

Hi to all!
I have a folder in a server with a list of files with same format. I want to allow only the application to access to these files. I thought to set an .htaccess, but i never work in a server so i ask for an help..
How can i setup this file? How can i send a request from b4a?

This is my .htaccess

B4X:

AuthName ""
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /mydomain.net/user_backup/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

.htpasswd (in this case, password i encrypted is "try". When i send a request i need to send "try" or the hash?

B4X:

try:$apr1$dR4/wKlT$iSy3ULOHuu.7jAjJQC9Bi/

B4a code

B4X:

Dim j As HttpJob
    j.Initialize("",Me)
    j.Download("http://mydomain.net/user_backup/FIRST.png")
    j.GetRequest.SetHeader("Authorization","Basic")
    j.Password = ""'don't know
    j.Username ="try"
    Wait For (j) JobDone(j As HttpJob)
    LogColor(j.Success,Colors.Blue)

Thanks!

DonManfred · Feb 10, 2018

Emme Developer said:
How can i setup this file?

https://www.google.de/search?source...1.64.psy-ab..1.7.443.0..0i131k1.0.8WyAtdGjtis

Emme Developer · Feb 10, 2018

DonManfred said:
https://www.google.de/search?source...1.64.psy-ab..1.7.443.0..0i131k1.0.8WyAtdGjtis

I tried it, but doesn't work.. don't understand what i should to do

Emme Developer · Feb 10, 2018

Now htaccess is working as expected, but i get Always Error 401.. this is the error:

B4X:

ResponseError. Reason: Unauthorized, Response: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>401 Unauthorized</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Unauthorized</h1>
<p>This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested.  Either you supplied the wrong
credentials (e.g., bad password), or your
browser doesn't understand how to supply
the credentials required.</p>
</body></html>

I don't understand why.. password and user are right, and by calling the url in browser all works properly

Emme Developer · Feb 10, 2018

Solved using this code, but i don't understand why username and password don't work..

B4X:

j.Initialize("",Me)
    Dim su As StringUtils
    Dim auth As String = su.EncodeBase64("user:password".GetBytes("UTF8"))
    j.Download("domain/user_backup/FIRST.png")
    j.GetRequest.SetHeader("Authorization","Basic "&auth)

Erel · Feb 11, 2018

Username and password should work. You don't need to set the authorization header yourself.

Emme Developer · Feb 12, 2018

Erel said:
Username and password should work. You don't need to set the authorization header yourself.

Without auth header and using username and password i get error 401

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