Error running pa11y-ci against a url with basic authentication. about pa11y-ci HOT 3 CLOSED

Ah yes the issue is with your config. The config should be an exported object rather than JS code which runs with Pa11y. The following may work for you:

const credentials = 'mycredential:mypassword';
const encodedCredentials = new Buffer(credentials).toString('base64');

module.export = {
    defaults: {
        headers: {
            Authorization: `Basic ${encodedCredentials}`
        }
    },
    urls: [
        'https://my.example.com'
    ]
};

I'm going to close the issue, but let me know if this doesn't help!

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@rowanmanning
Thank you for replying. Unfortunately, i'm getting the same 401 error.

Couple ways I configured config.js file is
1. The way you suggested, replacing "mycredential", "mypassword", and "urLs" accordingly.

const credentials = 'mycredential:mypassword';
const encodedCredentials = new Buffer(credentials).toString('base64');

module.export = {
defaults: {
headers: {
Authorization: Basic ${encodedCredentials}
}
},
urls: [
'https://my.example.com'
]
};

2. I also tried base 64ing the credential and commenting out two const at the top

//const credentials = '1000000003:dev1234$$';
//const encodedCredentials = new Buffer(credentials).toString('base64');

module.export = {
defaults: {
headers: {
Authorization: 'Basic hashed_credential'
}
},
urls: [
'https://myurl'
]
};

Both returns 401. In addition, I have noticed if i just run $pa11y-ci -c config.js, it doesn't pick up the url specified in the config. I have to specify the url in command line for pa11y to test against it for some reason i.e. $pa11y-ci -c config.js https://myurl.com

Thank you for the assistance !

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Typo in the sample answer at s/module.export/module.exports but this helped!

Create some file, like pa11y-config.js:

const credentials = 'mycredential:mypassword';
const encodedCredentials = new Buffer(credentials).toString('base64');

module.exports = {
    defaults: {
        headers: {
            Authorization: `Basic ${encodedCredentials}`
        }
    },
    urls: [
        'https://my.example.com'
    ]
};

Run

pa11y-ci --config=./pa11y-config.js

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