Colin Paul Adams wrote:
"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.
How are you suggesting these should work?
The simplest approach is merely to recognize URLs in the form
https://user:pass(_at_)host/
This could be implemented in a current processor without any spec changes.
The alternative would be a new document function (initially in an
extension namespace until XSLT 2.1) with two extra arguments. E.g.
document($uri-sequence as item()*, $base-node as node()) as node()*,
$username as string, $password as string)
Details are probably a little off, but that's the idea.
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