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Overview

DEV-10937:

• 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

sometimes need to provide authentication to an external site. In order to provide a username and/or password securely, you can use a public alias or key to point to an encrypted username/password. This is usually in a secure tool such as a keystore.

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:

1. Create a local secret that contains the password
2. Create a secret key that "points to" the local secret
3. In the HTTP collector expression, specify the

public alias.

1. secret key name.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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

Local Secret