HTTP Authentication

Starting with version 8.5.00, Monitoring Studio supports HTTP authentication. The HTTP authentication is a login/password-based mechanism implemented in the HTTP protocol itself. A Web server that requires an HTTP authentication will display a dialog box in Internet Explorer.

HTTP authentication has nothing to do with an authentication system of a Web page with a form asking for user credentials like on Hotmail or Yahoo mail or any public webmail service.

There are 3 different HTTP authentication schemes, depending on the machine where Monitoring Studio is running:

For Basic HTTP authentication, the password is sent in a base 64-encoded form and is therefore very easily decoded.

If you need to test a Web page or retrieve information from a Web server that requires HTTP Digest or NTLM authentication, we recommend that you install Monitoring Studio on a Windows system and set up the Web requests from this machine (Web requests can be sent to remote systems)