# Webhook basic authorization

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/webhook-basic-authorization/218522
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Tags:** webhooks
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webhook-basic-authorization/218522 "2017-12-21T17:00:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![lotekjunky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@lotekjunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/lotekjunky)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webhook-basic-authorization/218522/1 "2017-12-21T17:00:25Z")

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Please add basic authorization capabilities to the webhook feature. When sending webhooks to password protected entities, URLs encoded with username:password@server/hook.html does not always work. Sometimes we need it passed in a header. Please open up the header manipulation or add a way to pass basic auth the far end.

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### Author: ![lotekjunky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@lotekjunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/lotekjunky)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/webhook-basic-authorization/218522/2 "2017-12-22T15:53:09Z")

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I got it to work with reverse proxy on apache using basicauthfake, but it shouldn’t be that hard…