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HTTP Basic Auth with Golang

How do I implement basic auth with a Golang site? So that when someone visits a page they will be prompted by their browser with a login.

Solution

  • In order to force a user to authenticate/make that basic auth prompt in the users browser appear you send the header WWW-Authenticate : Basic ream="mydomain"

    So if you have a http.ResponseWriter called w, you can do 

     w.Header().Set("WWW-Authenticate", `Basic realm="mydomain"`)

    Which will cause the browser to open the prompt you're referring to.