# HTTP REQUEST basic auth broken?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-request-basic-auth-broken/19319>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [18 December 2019 19:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-request-basic-auth-broken/19319 "2019-12-18T19:51:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![i8beef](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/i8beef/32/3161_2.png) [@i8beef](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/i8beef)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2019 19:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-request-basic-auth-broken/19319/1 "2019-12-18T19:51:19Z")

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Hello. Having some odd behavior with the HTTP REQUEST node in 1.0.3 (i.e., the one that makes requests, not answers them).

Basic auth doesn't seem to work, though I can easily generate a basic auth string and manually generate and set the header on the incoming message and it works fine. Verified on IE and Chrome so I don't think this is editor related.