diff --git a/src/corelibs/requests_handling/auth_helpers.py b/src/corelibs/requests_handling/auth_helpers.py
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+"""
+Various HTTP auth helpers
+"""
+
+from base64 import b64encode
+
+
+def basic_auth(username: str, password: str) -> str:
+    """
+    setup basic auth, for debug
+
+    Arguments:
+        username {str} -- _description_
+        password {str} -- _description_
+
+    Returns:
+        str -- _description_
+    """
+    token = b64encode(f"{username}:{password}".encode('utf-8')).decode("ascii")
+    return f'Basic {token}'