RFE: Add support for Basic Auth and Additional Headers for httpcheck type

[ggiesen]

It'd be great if the HTTP check type supported Basic Auth and the ability to add addtional headers.

[NodePing]

Can you provide some more information about your use case for the requested enhancement?

[ggiesen]

I'm using NodePing push to test API requests against an internal corporate system to test for liveness of the API. The API requires basic authentication and a formatted header and if successful will return a valid SOAP response.

[NodePing]

Our AGENT check functionality can handle that well - https://nodeping.com/agent_check.html You can assign an HTTP Advanced check, which supports BASIC auth and custom request headers, to your AGENT.

Alternatively, you can modify the PUSH check httpcontent module and add both auth and headers to the curl command there.

We'll leave this RFE open as well.