Re: HTTP authentication support

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>>>> "Elliotte" == Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    Elliotte> Which, if any, processors support HTTP authentication in
    Elliotte> the URLs they retrieve? Both for the initial document
    Elliotte> and documents retrieved by the document() function?

    Elliotte> For my current needs I only need to retrieve
    Elliotte> authenticated documents from one site, so a single
    Elliotte> command line option would be sufficient. However longer
    Elliotte> term I'd like to be able to retrieve documents from
    Elliotte> multiple sites with different usernames and
    Elliotte> passwords. Thus either an extended document function or
    Elliotte> support for https://user:pass@host/ style URLs would be
    Elliotte> required.

    Colin> How are you suggesting these should work?

I just added --user= and --password= options to gestalt - if these are
both supplied, they are passed to the HTTP or HTTPS client as basic
authentication. It seems to work, as far as I can tell.

Do you have a test site and xslt program that I can use to verify this?
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire