Use http authentication.

Source: R/authenticate.r

It's not obvious how to turn authentication off after using it, so I recommend using custom handles with authentication.

authenticate(user, password, type = "basic")

Arguments

user

user name
password

password
type

type of HTTP authentication. Should be one of the following types supported by Curl: basic, digest, digest_ie, gssnegotiate, ntlm, any. It defaults to "basic", the most common type.

See also

Other config: add_headers, config, set_cookies, timeout, use_proxy, user_agent, verbose

Examples

GET("http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd")
#> Response [http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd]
#>   Date: 2020-03-11 04:09
#>   Status: 401
#>   Content-Type: <unknown>
#> <EMPTY BODY>
GET(
  "http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd",
  authenticate("user", "passwd")
)
#> Response [http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd]
#>   Date: 2020-03-11 04:09
#>   Status: 200
#>   Content-Type: application/json
#>   Size: 47 B
#> {
#>   "authenticated": true, 
#>   "user": "user"
#> }