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| author |  Jakob Buchgraber <buchgr@google.com> | 2018-02-08 12:19:57 -0800 |
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| committer |  Copybara-Service <copybara-piper@google.com> | 2018-02-08 12:21:43 -0800 |
| commit | cf3f81aef7c32019d70cbce218a64a03276268f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 91e53806bed5441f4e93c43c999ac1ace3ce0c8f /site | |
| parent | 1c6d061ea448ee19022f6e609099515a25a5a131 (diff) | |
remote: Add support for HTTP Basic Auth
Closes #4609.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 185032751
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| -rw-r--r-- | site/docs/remote-caching.md | 9 |
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diff --git a/site/docs/remote-caching.md b/site/docs/remote-caching.md index bfdf4e7b87..0d193dd85f 100644 --- a/site/docs/remote-caching.md +++ b/site/docs/remote-caching.md @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ make builds significantly faster. * [Bazel Remote Cache](#bazel-remote-cache) * [Google Cloud Storage](#google-cloud-storage) * [Other servers](#other-servers) +* [Authentication](#authentication) * [HTTP Caching Protocol](#http-caching-protocol) * [Run Bazel using the remote cache](#run-bazel-using-the-remote-cache) * [Read from and write to the remote cache](#read-from-and-write-to-the-remote-cache) @@ -174,6 +175,14 @@ You can set up any HTTP/1.1 server that supports PUT and GET as the cache's backend. Users have reported success with caching backends such as [Hazelcast], [Apache httpd], and [AWS S3]. +## Authentication + +As of version 0.11.0 support for HTTP Basic Authentication was added to Bazel. +You can pass a username and password to Bazel via the remote cache URL. The +syntax is `https://username:password@hostname.com:port/path`. Please note that +HTTP Basic Authentication transmits username and password in plaintext over the +network and it's thus critical to always use it with HTTPS. + ## HTTP Caching Protocol Bazel supports remote caching via HTTP/1.1. The protocol is conceptually simple: |