Please add basic auth support

[dennusb]

Because we are running Graylog at EC2 we've placed a proxy in front which is handling the Gelf requests, but first you need to authenticate with basic auth. Could you please add support for that in the collector?

[bernd]

You mean auth support for the collector registration requests against the Graylog server API on port 12900?

[dennusb]

Nope, basic auth for sending the Gelf messages on port 12201!

[dennisoelkers]

It might make sense to implement basic auth support for GELF over HTTP once we have support for GELF/HTTP in the gelfclient library.

[dennusb]

Yeah. We are using Gelf over HTTP, but to make it more secure there is a Squid in front processing authentication :)

[bernd]

I will file this as a feature request. We need the following for this:

1. HTTP support in gelfclient. (including basic auth) See: Add HTTP transport Graylog2/gelfclient#9
2. Configuration support for HTTP GELF in the collector.
3. Basic auth support for the GELF HTTP input in Graylog server. See: Support authenticated HTTP GELF input Graylog2/graylog2-server#335

[davidchua]

@dennusb how are you using squid to secure?