How to secure an external rest call within a rest datasource

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Hi all,

I’m trying to get access to a secured external rest api from within a form respectively from a datatable with a rest datasource. But how to configure?
Requests such as http://user:password@localhost:8080/api/something will be blocked by javascript
“Request cannot be constructed from a URL that includes credentials”

Without security enabled on the external rest service, datatable just works fine.

Thanks
Zuegi

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Those requests are indeed blocked (and for valid security reasons). Such calls are typically done in the process/case using an HTTP task.

If it’s about showing data in a table, then you will probably have to proxy those using a REST endpoint running on your local domain that sends it forward.

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thank you for your answer.
Even though flowable is very powerful, the documentation often confuses me more than it helps me.

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Then you can help us by pointing us to documentation that confuses you (e.g. via the forum, creating a github pull request, etc.).