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Catalog108 / challenges / api/auth/basic

HTTP Basic auth

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What this challenge teaches

Teaches: Send Authorization: Basic <base64(user:pass)>.

Expected output: Credentials: student / practice108. With curl: -u student:practice108

Submit your scraper's JSON output to /challenges/api/auth/basic/grade (grader endpoint is part of a later phase; URL is reserved now).

No valid credentials seen on this request. Hit ?json=1 with -u student:practice108 for the protected JSON.
curl -u student:practice108 "https://practice.scrapingcentral.com/challenges/api/auth/basic?json=1"