8: Services Settings
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HTTP Authentication allows you to require usernames and passwords to access specific
web pages or directories on the EDS's built-in web server.
For example, to add web pages to the EDS to control or monitor of a device attached to a
port on the EDS, you can specify the user and password that can access that web page.
If you click Authentication at the top of one of the HTTP pages, the HTTP Authentication
page displays. Here you can change HTTP authentication settings.
Under Current Configuration, URI and Users have a Delete link. If you click Delete, a
message asks whether you are sure you want to delete this information. Click OK to
proceed or Cancel to cancel the operation.
Example:
The following example shows how to add authentication to user-loaded web pages in a
directory called port1control.
1. Create a directory called port1control in the EDS's files system and under the /http
directory (using an FTP client, Windows Explorer, or the EDS Web Manager).
2. Copy the custom web pages to this directory.
3. On the HTTP Authentication page of the EDS Web Manager, add:
A URI of port1control
A Realm of Monitor
An AuthType of Digest
A Username and Password
4. Click the Submit button. The EDS creates a username and password to allow the
user to access all web pages located in the directory port1control in the EDS file
system.
5. You can acc ess the web pages by going to http://<your device>/port/control/ web
server>.
Note: The URI, realm, username, and password are user-specified, freeform
fields. The URI must match the directory created on the EDS file system. The
URI and realm used in the example above are only examples and would typically
be different as specified by the user.