[DOCS] Clarify elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist setting #16254
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Team:Core
Core services & architecture: plugins, logging, config, saved objects, http, ES client, i18n, etc
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In the current docs, we show do not really explain the ramifications of changing
elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist
.https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/settings.html
This is further compounded by the example
kibana.yml
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Lines 68 to 70 in 39994b4
It sounds a lot more secure to send no headers, but it means that you can never authenticate a request against an instance of Elasticsearch that requires Basic Authentication.
We should probably note that removing the
authorization
header from being whitelisted means that you cannot use Basic Authentication from Kibana.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: