HTTP Authentication

1import encoding from 'k6/encoding';
2import http from 'k6/http';
3import { check } from 'k6';
4
5const username = 'user';
6const password = 'passwd';
7
8export default function () {
9  const credentials = `${username}:${password}`;
10
11  // Passing username and password as part of the URL will
12  // allow us to authenticate using HTTP Basic Auth.
13  const url = `http://${credentials}@httpbin.test.k6.io/basic-auth/${username}/${password}`;
14
15  let res = http.get(url);
16
17  // Verify response
18  check(res, {
19    'status is 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
20    'is authenticated': (r) => r.json().authenticated === true,
21    'is correct user': (r) => r.json().user === username,
22  });
23
24  // Alternatively you can create the header yourself to authenticate
25  // using HTTP Basic Auth
26  const encodedCredentials = encoding.b64encode(credentials);
27  const options = {
28    headers: {
29      Authorization: `Basic ${encodedCredentials}`,
30    },
31  };
32
33  res = http.get(`http://httpbin.test.k6.io/basic-auth/${username}/${password}`, options);
34
35  // Verify response (checking the echoed data from the httpbin.test.k6.io
36  // basic auth test API endpoint)
37  check(res, {
38    'status is 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
39    'is authenticated': (r) => r.json().authenticated === true,
40    'is correct user': (r) => r.json().user === username,
41  });
42}

1import http from 'k6/http';
2import { check } from 'k6';
3
4const username = 'user';
5const password = 'passwd';
6
7export default function () {
8  // Passing username and password as part of URL plus the auth option will
9  // authenticate using HTTP Digest authentication.
10  const credentials = `${username}:${password}`;
11  const res = http.get(
12    `http://${credentials}@httpbin.test.k6.io/digest-auth/auth/${username}/${password}`,
13    { auth: 'digest' }
14  );
15
16  // Verify response (checking the echoed data from the httpbin.test.k6.io digest auth
17  // test API endpoint)
18  check(res, {
19    'status is 200': (r) => r.status === 200,
20    'is authenticated': (r) => r.json().authenticated === true,
21    'is correct user': (r) => r.json().user === username,
22  });
23}

1import http from 'k6/http';
2
3const username = 'user';
4const password = 'passwd';
5
6export default function () {
7  // Passing username and password as part of URL and then specifying
8  // "ntlm" as auth type will do the trick!
9  const credentials = `${username}:${password}`;
10  const res = http.get(`http://${credentials}@example.com/`, { auth: 'ntlm' });
11}

import http from 'k6/http';
import { sleep } from 'k6';

// Import browserified AWSv4 signature library
import aws4 from './aws4.js';

// Get AWS credentials from environment variables
const AWS_CREDS = {
  accessKeyId: __ENV.AWS_ACCESSKEY,
  secretAccessKey: __ENV.AWS_SECRETKEY,
};

export default function () {
  // Sign the AWS API request
  const signed = aws4.sign(
    {
      service: 'ec2',
      path: '/?Action=DescribeRegions&Version=2014-06-15',
    },
    AWS_CREDS
  );

  // Make the actual request to the AWS API including the
  // "Authorization" header with the signature
  const res = http.get(`https://${signed.hostname}${signed.path}`, {
    headers: signed.headers,
  });

  // Print the response
  console.log(res.body);

  sleep(1);
}