Basic HTTP Authentication in Elixir/Phoenix

If our server responds with 401 Unauthorized response including WWW-Authenticate response header with a Basic challenge as follows:

the browser can automatically ask the user for login credentials (login and password). The README of the BasicAuth plug gives us a hint on a helper:

Apart from the authentication helper that we pipe through with our connection we are also using valid credentials by default that we put to the text.exs file:

Of course it’s up to you to make sure that a user with such credentials exist during the test run. Finally, if you are authorizing users to manipulate data on the server, make sure to use CSRF protection, because as I stated in the beginning, the Authorization header is sent automatically by the browser.

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