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

[Ari Roponen]

Hi,

"Edward O'Connor" <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's the scenario: I work on several elisp clients for various APIs
> which are exposed via HTTP and make use of HTTP AUTH. When a developer
> uses my library, they supply the relevant auth info to my library
> explicitly. I would then like to invoke url-retreive and have the
> resulting request use basic (or digest) auth with the auth info I
> already have, *without prompting the user* for a username or password. I
> keep failing to figure out how to do this.

I have used something like this to get status information from my
ADSL-modem. I don't know if it is the right thing, but it has worked for
me.

  (defvar telewell-default-auth
      `(("192.168.0.254:80"
         ("WebAdmin" . ,(base64-encode-string "admin:password"))))
    "Default authorization data for Telewell ADSL modem.")
  
  (defun telewell-get-data ()
    (let* ((url-show-status nil)
           (url-basic-auth-storage 'telewell-default-auth)
           (buf (url-retrieve-synchronously
                  "http://192.168.0.254/adsl.asp";)))
      (when buf
        ...)))
  
-- 
Ari Roponen