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Resolved PB 2019 R2: Basic authentication and new WebBrowser control

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  1. René Ullrich
    René Ullrich
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  3. Monday, 25 November 2019 08:30 AM UTC

Hi,

We have to show a webpage in our application that requires basic authentication.

How can I specify the basic authentication information for the request headers in the new WebBrowser control?

Regards,

René

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 19 November 2020 20:54 PM UTC
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PB 2019 R3 supports both basic and digest authentication for the Chromium WebBrowser control as well as other enhancements: https://docs.appeon.com/pb2019r3/whats_new/WebBrowser_enhancements.html

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René Ullrich
  1. René Ullrich
  2. Friday, 20 November 2020 05:49 AM UTC
Hi Armeen,

I've seen the new enchancement in Beta. But I'm still missing a method to authenticate automatically (e.g. specify the credentials by script and not by login window).
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Friday, 20 November 2020 06:35 AM UTC
Please send as enhancement request to product@appeon.com. Thanks!
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Balu Krishnasamy
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  1. Friday, 27 March 2020 01:56 AM UTC
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René Ullrich - Thank you for bringing this up. We are on the same boat as well. We send a Base 64 Encoded credential on the old MS web browser control and there is no way to do that in 2019 R2 yet.

Chris, really appreciate, if you have an update on this ticket.

Thanks guys! 

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:06 PM UTC
Do you need more application control over this process?
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Balu Krishnasamy
  1. Balu Krishnasamy
  2. Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:22 PM UTC
Yes Sir. Thats how it used to work with the old control.

Ex. mswebbrowsercontrol.navigate(url, 0, '_self', data, headerparams) The headerparams will have the BASE64encoded creds and the browser navigates to the page directly(something like autologon). No login window gets displayed and the method has more control to this.



Also, fyi, If this new web browser control is based off of CEF libraries, then i am pretty sure CEF supports it as we have implemented an inhouse workaround to solve this issue by using a java wrapper (JCEF) and it doesnt display any login window for authentication. It will be nice to move away from that approach for us and starting using what Appeon has to offer natively.
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Deepthi Kollipara
  1. Deepthi Kollipara
  2. Thursday, 17 June 2021 09:45 AM UTC
@Balu Krishnasamy, Could you please brief your inhouse workaround using JCEF for passing header parameters with webbrowser control?
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René Ullrich
René Ullrich Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 26 November 2019 06:32 AM UTC
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Hi Roland and Chris,

I created a support ticket.

Thank you!

René

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Friday, 20 November 2020 06:29 AM UTC
Hi Rene;

Correct. I see that the ticket's last action was "transferring to Engineering".

Can you do me a favour & update the ticket about R3 Beta not fixed or, create a new ticket for R3 beta & I'll link it back to the R2 ticket.

Many thanks in advance!

Regards ... Chris
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René Ullrich
  1. René Ullrich
  2. Friday, 20 November 2020 06:46 AM UTC
Hi Chris,

I added a comment in the ticket.
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Friday, 20 November 2020 15:04 PM UTC
Hi René;

I saw your ticket update this AM and then added my $0.02 in the comments. HTH

Regards ,... Chris
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 25 November 2019 18:47 PM UTC
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Hi René;

   I do not believe that this is currently supported. Please create a PB2019 R2 beta Support Ticket outlining this deficiency so that Appeon Engineering can address this issue. You have a good point.

Regards ... Chris

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Tuesday, 26 November 2019 17:13 PM UTC
Hi René;

I saw your ticket today and transferred it to Engineering. I do not believe that the R2 version of the control has this capability. However, it does not mean that the next January beta might not. Let's see how Engineering responds to your question as they know the upcoming features that are currently not in the R2 beta "preview" release.

Regards ... Chris
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Balu Krishnasamy
  1. Balu Krishnasamy
  2. Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:22 PM UTC
@Chris Pollach, Thank you for forwarding it to Engineering. Would you happen to know when this will be available?
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Roland Smith
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  1. Monday, 25 November 2019 11:18 AM UTC
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Since it is based on Chromium, it will be compatible with the Chrome browser.

For your specific question about headers, I'm not sure what that has to do with the upcoming browser control, that is something usually done when calling a web service via HTTPClient.

 

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René Ullrich
  1. René Ullrich
  2. Monday, 25 November 2019 11:24 AM UTC
Hi Roland,

if I try to call a webpage that requires basic authentication with the new webbrowser control I get back a 401 (Unauthorized) page because of missing basic authentication. (Microsoft Webbrowser control shows a dialog to enter the credentials is this case.)

I want to specify the credentials anyway programmatically so I can access the website using the new browser control.
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Roland Smith
  1. Roland Smith
  2. Monday, 25 November 2019 14:18 PM UTC
You should email the product manager product@appeon.com and explain the business case and how you think it should work.
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