From 027ff4e2dd5df44655d6c3a96ee30c2bf09832e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Nelson <daniel.nelson@influxdb.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:22:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Allow setting basic auth with empty username

---
 plugins/inputs/http/http.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/http/http.go b/plugins/inputs/http/http.go
index beece0458..1f6a2e924 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/http/http.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/http/http.go
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ func (h *HTTP) gatherURL(
 		}
 	}
 
-	if h.Username != "" {
+	if h.Username != "" || h.Password != "" {
 		request.SetBasicAuth(h.Username, h.Password)
 	}