Digest Authentication for Rest Web Service

[whynotmatt]

I am trying to access an external Rest web service that requires digest authentication. I've looked at the Rest Client and the HTTP Client, but I can't figure out how to turn on digest authentication. I only see options for basic authentication. Does anyone know how I can do a digest authentication in the Rest client step?

[marabu]

Does anyone know how I can do a digest authentication in the Rest client step?

No way.

Currently the ReST client step is only capable of Basic Authentication.
Don't you have transport layer security, anyway?

[whynotmatt]

The api is housed by a third party vendor, so I cannot change the authentication layer for it. Right now they are only providing digest authentication.

[marabu]

I see.

Do you feel comfortable to implement your own transformation step?

And can you give an order of magnitude for the service requests you are planning?

[youssefklee]

Hi,

i would like to send digest authentication request to pentaho server using PHP. What are the steps i have to follow in order to do this ? (which url do i have to call, etc... ) ? Do i have to enable something on the pentaho server to be able to use this authentication mechanism ?

I want to use digest because basic authentication shows clearly the password in the request referer and that's too bad !

Please help, it's really important !!

YSA