About 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 a Web browser.

HTTP authentication has nothing to do with an authentication system of a Web page with a form asking for user credentials like any public Web mail service, for example.

There are several HTTP authentication schemes, depending on the way the proxy server has been configured. Here is the list of HTTP authentication supported by Monitoring Studio:

For Basic HTTP authentication, the password is sent in a Base64-encoded form and is therefore very easily decoded.

Please note that Monitoring Studio requires Java 1.8 (or higher) for HTTP authentication to perform properly.

The proxy authentication also supports Basic, Digest, NTLM, and Negotiate authentication schemes. It can be configured for accessing Web sites through the Proxy Settings in the Global Advanced Settings section.