# Digest authentication support in HttpRequest node

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/digest-authentication-support-in-httprequest-node/4131>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [19 October 2018 21:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/digest-authentication-support-in-httprequest-node/4131 "2018-10-19T21:45:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BartButenaers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bartbutenaers/32/10476_2.png) [@BartButenaers](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BartButenaers)\
**Post date:** [29 April 2020 07:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/digest-authentication-support-in-httprequest-node/4131/21 "2020-04-29T07:00:54Z")

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Hi Jude,  
the multipart-decoder node doesn't support digest authentication. To support that I need to rewrite quite some stuff, because I use a rather old npm library under the covers. So that would result in quite some work...  
At the time being the http-request node was not capable of decoding multipart streams.  
So don't know about a short term solution, when you want to do it al inside Node-RED (without third-party tools).  
Bart

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**Author:** ![Jude.Robise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jude.robise/32/13970_2.png) [@Jude.Robise](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jude.Robise)\
**Post date:** [29 April 2020 07:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/digest-authentication-support-in-httprequest-node/4131/22 "2020-04-29T07:07:21Z")

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Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.

Currently I'm using some REST API client software called **Insomnia**. It has both authentication modes and still I'm figuring out how to request **multipart streams**. 😃

Hopefully, soon we will get that digest authentication mode for the **multipart decoder**. Its really a useful node. 😃

Thanks 😃

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**Author:** ![BartButenaers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bartbutenaers/32/10476_2.png) [@BartButenaers](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BartButenaers)\
**Post date:** [29 April 2020 07:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/digest-authentication-support-in-httprequest-node/4131/23 "2020-04-29T07:16:02Z")

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> [@Jude.Robise](#):
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> Hopefully, soon we will get that digest authentication mode for the **multipart decoder**.

For completeness, I need to upgrade to use "some" other library. But not sure which one. Other nodes have a related [issue](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/should-node-red-nodes-use-http-request-or-got/25392/3).

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