Would it be of interest to add

BasicAuthenticator

to the SDK? I have had to do this

base64

approach a couple times now, and it took me a bit to figure it out the first time:

raw_credentials = f"{stream.config['username']}:{stream.config['password']}"
auth_token = base64.b64encode(raw_credentials.encode()).decode("ascii")
auth_headers = {"Authorization": f"Basic {auth_token}"}

I could’ve sworn there was one already! That’s definitely one we should support out of the box

I've done it twice as well! +1

Logged here (contributions welcome!) 😄 Add support for Basic (Base64) authentication (#185) · Issues · Meltano / Meltano SDK for Singer Taps and Targets · GitLab

thanks! i actually started working on this but had some confusion around the MR process basically because I'm not familiar with Gitlab. Should I: 1. fork the sdk within the gitlab ui 2. clone that locally 3. make edits 4. create the MR from my fork to the SDK? or can i just skip forking the repo? I assume i don't have permission but didn't want to test in prod 🙂

That’s all correct! You won’t be able to push changes back into the main repo, so you need to fork it

Confirmed. 👍 And thanks!!