changeset 6101:7eaee38747ab

doc Authorization header
author Alain Mazy <am@orthanc.team>
date Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:24:56 +0200
parents 554b081d8df4
children a0fec542812e
files OrthancServer/Plugins/Include/orthanc/OrthancCPlugin.h
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/OrthancServer/Plugins/Include/orthanc/OrthancCPlugin.h	Thu Apr 10 12:14:17 2025 +0200
+++ b/OrthancServer/Plugins/Include/orthanc/OrthancCPlugin.h	Tue Apr 29 15:24:56 2025 +0200
@@ -1509,6 +1509,10 @@
    * concurrently by different threads of the Web server of
    * Orthanc. You must implement proper locking if applicable.
    *
+   * Note that if you are using HTTP basic authentication, you can extract
+   * the username from the "Authorization" HTTP header.  The value of that header
+   * contains username:pwd encoded in base64.
+   *
    * @param method The HTTP method used by the request.
    * @param uri The URI of interest.
    * @param ip The IP address of the HTTP client.