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Overview

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• HTTP Datasources → Properties →  Secret Key Details
• Datasource instances → Username/Password or Username Key/Password Key
• HTTP Headers Properties → Basic Settings → Value 
• HTTP collectors → URL expression or Statement Expression

data modellers who need to provide securely-stored credentials to access data via HTTP.

Overview

When importing data via HTTP, you sometimes need to provide authentication to an external site. In order to provide a username and/or password securely,

Configure 

  - a secret key, which defines the public name and points to

  - a local secret. This is a PhixFlow item that stores encrypted data in the PhixFlow database.

In order to provide a password securely:

Configure a key/value pair using the PhixFlow items:  

1.   In a HTTP Datasource properties → Secret Key Details, create a secret key.
2.   Add the value to the local secret. PhixFlow encrypts the local secret.

You can use the secret key name to refer to the encrypted value in the following places:

• HTTP Datasources → Properties →  Secret Key Details
• Datasource instances → Username/Password or Username Key/Password Key
• HTTP Headers Properties → Basic Settings → Value 
• HTTP collectors → URL expression or Statement Expression                                                                                                                                                              

When you run analysis

PhixFlow then finds the secure credentials in the keystore and provides them to authenticate to the external site.

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Local Secret

Basic Settings