http password

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Zac Elston <zelston at aol.com> wrote:
> i have a url that is 
>
"http://username:password@hostname/path/file.pl?var1=foo
> 
> when using this url in a browser, it works
> 
> when using "Get URL myquery" i get empty.
> 
> even "get URL urlencode(myquery)" returns empty.
> 
> what's the trick to getting this to work?
> 
> thanks
> -zav
> 

Hi Zac,

The best way to figure out why http and ftp things
don't give the desired result, is to log their actions
to a field and see what's missing ; see the Transcript
Dictionary entry for the 'libURLSetLogField' command.
Example :
--
  libURLSetLogField the long ID of field "log"
  get URL tURL
  libURLSetLogField "none"
--

It is possible that the server is using some form of
authentication that is stored in the httpHeaders --
checking the log should point that out.

As a side-note : it isn't necessary to URLencode the
entire URL -- just make sure the username and password
are encoded before stringing together the URL.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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