Re: How to non-interactively provide auth info to URL, and how to force URL to use HTTP AUTH

[Juri Linkov]

> Any suggestions on how to proceed would be most welcome!

A comment in the CVS revision 7.7 of gnus/auth-source.el used to say:

;;; For url-auth authentication (HTTP/HTTPS), you need to use:
;;;
;;; machine yourmachine.com:80 port http login testuser password testpass
;;;
;;; This will match any realm and authentication method (basic or
;;; digest).  If you want finer controls, explore the url-auth source
;;; code and variables.

I don't know why it was removed and whether it currently supports
HTTP authentication (looking at the source code of lisp/url/url-auth.el
that uses gnus/auth-source.el, it seems this should work).

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/