[GUACAMOLE-29] Add support for requesting HTTP Basic Authentication

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Do
• External issue URL: https://glyptodon.org/jira/browse/GUAC-1489
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mike Jumper
• Created: 19/May/16 23:04
• Updated: 14/Aug/19 01:01
• Resolved: 14/Aug/19 01:01

Description

The description of this issue was copied from GUAC-1489, an issue in the JIRA instance used by the Guacamole project prior to its acceptance into the Apache Incubator.

Comments, attachments, related issues, and history from prior to acceptance have not been copied and can be found instead at the original issue.

Some reverse proxies support SSO via HTTP Basic authentication if the server requests it with 401 Unauthorized response.

As Guacamole already reads Authorization header, it looks trivial to add guacamole.properties option such as "enable-http-basic-auth", to tell Guacamole to request HTTP Basic Authentication .

PR on its way

Thanks!

Issue Links

• Dependency: GUACAMOLE-504 Allow subclasses of GuacamoleException to override HTTP/WebSocket status code