"Colin" == Colin Paul Adams
<colin(_at_)colina(_dot_)demon(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> writes:
"Elliotte" == Elliotte Harold <elharo(_at_)metalab(_dot_)unc(_dot_)edu>
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(_at_)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
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