HTTPS auth using QML and XMLHttpRequest

I try to access a remote REST API service using QML. According to the service API I have to use HTTPS requests. I don't know how to interpret the output I get from the code.

methods.js

function makeRequest()                                                                {                                                                                     var doc = new XMLHttpRequest();                                                                                                                 doc.onreadystatechange = function() {                                                 if (doc.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.HEADERS_RECEIVED) {                              console.debug("Headers -->");                                                     console.debug(doc.getAllResponseHeaders ());                                      console.debug("Last modified -->");                                               console.debug(doc.getResponseHeader ("Last-Modified"));                           console.debug("error: " + doc.status);                                                                                                                          }                                                                             }                                                                                                                                                                   doc.open("GET", "https://somedomain.com");                            //var user="username"                                                               //var pass="password"                                                               doc.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');        //doc.setRequestHeader( 'Authorization', 'Basic ' + Qt.btoa( user + ':' + pass ) )  //doc.withCredentials = true;                                                       doc.send();                                                                       }                                                                                     

output:

Headers -->  date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:04:25 GMT  server: Apache  cache-control: private  expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 CET  www-authenticate: FORM comment="Use form to authenticate"  content-length: 6529  x-powered-by: PleskLin  connection: close  content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1  Last modified -->  error: 401  

commenting out the commented lines doesn't change the output. Does the output try to tell me, that I can only get authentication if I fill the login form? I don't find this very logic, because the service's api is made for automatic interaction with devices.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65381983/https-auth-using-qml-and-xmlhttprequest December 21, 2020 at 12:13AM