Create request with basic authentication with Fiddler

Question

How to construct a POST request to an endpoint, as the request is secured with basic authentication (username, password) and the type is XML. It has to be done in Fiddler.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can construct a web request under the Composer tab. There you can select the type from the drop-down - in your case POST. In the text box on the right enter the endpoint url address. In the text area below enter the headers, like this:

Content-type: text/xml
Authentication: Basic  BASE64USERNAMEPASSWORDHERE

The format of the authentication is: username:password encoded in Base64 format. For the encoding you can also use Fiddler - Go to Tools -> TextWizard...

Finally press Execute button on the right side and you will get the result response.