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Programmatically send username & password to Apache web server

Answer 1

+1 A:

Use the following:

http://user:[email protected]/path

Josh K 2010-09-17 22:35:46

Answer 2

+2 A:

You have ran into Basic Access Authentication. You just need to pass the username and password as part of the URL:

http://username:[email protected]/page.html

JYelton 2010-09-17 22:35:48

This brings up a dialog asking me if I'm sure I want to proceed. This is still blocking my programmatic access.

Luke 2010-09-17 22:43:58

What programming language are you using? Depending on how you are sending the URL to the server, you may need to employ the specific method of passing credentials according to your programming language. In C# for example, `WebRequest.Credentials` (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest.credentials.aspx)

JYelton 2010-09-18 00:13:48

I'm actually calling this from Actionscript so the environment making the call is eventually the browser. When I send a Authorization header I see that it works within Firefox 3.6 but not lower versions and IE 8 seems to fail as well.

Luke 2010-09-18 03:13:47

Unfortunately I am not an Actionscript expert, however it sounds like this has more to do with browser security, i.e. which browser allows plugins like Flash to make specific types of requests or not.

JYelton 2010-09-18 18:10:30

Answer 3

+1 A:

Have you tried sending the Authorization header incorporating the base-64-encoded credentials as part of the HTTP request as described in the linked Wikipedia article?

Richard Cook 2010-09-17 23:25:21

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