Firefox Addon Request Module - Authentication - firefox

Question

I am using firefox addons sdk.
I have created a plugin and I wanted to send request out of it. I came across following code on Mozilla developer site.
var Request = require("sdk/request").Request;
var latestTweetRequest = Request({
url: "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=mozhacks&count=1",
onComplete: function (response) {
var tweet = response.json[0];
console.log("User: " + tweet.user.screen_name);
console.log("Tweet: " + tweet.text);
}
});
// Be a good consumer and check for rate limiting before doing more.
Request({
url: "http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.json",
onComplete: function (response) {
if (response.json.remaining_hits) {
latestTweetRequest.get();
} else {
console.log("You have been rate limited!");
}
}
}).get();
Here I cannot get any option to pass credentials along with request. As long as it is possible I want to avoid passing credentials along with url e.g. http://username:password#example.com, because many time special characters in password creates issue. So how to pass credentials with this request.

Answer 1

var { encode, decode } = require("sdk/base64");
// use encode() to base64 encode your credentials
var encodedCredentials = encode(email + ':' + password);
var testRequest = FRequest({
url: url,
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Basic ' + encodedCredentials
},
onComplete: function(response){
addOnPanel.port.emit('event', response.json)
}
}).get();