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var http = require('http');

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
        // console.log(req);   // debug dump the request

        // If they pass in a basic auth credential it'll be in a header called "Authorization" (note NodeJS lowercases the names of headers in its request object)

        var auth = req.headers['authorization'];  // auth is in base64(username:password)  so we need to decode the base64
        console.log("Authorization Header is: ", auth);