Web server authentication
In order to access a running instance via a web browser or programmatically via the NCBI-BLAST Common URL API interface, one needs to provide credentials.
The user name is set to blast
and the password is the AWS instance ID.
A web browser will prompt for credentials (see screenshot below); programmatic
access will require authentication to be configured. For example, assuming the instance’s
ID is i-01ef8ea68031299de
and its public DNS is ec2-54-90-191-42.compute-1.amazonaws.com
:
$ curl http://blast:i-01ef8ea68031299de@ec2-54-90-191-42.compute-1.amazonaws.com/cgi-bin/blast.cgi
Please consult the appropriate tool/API’s documentation to properly configure programmatic access.