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connecting to .htaccess password protected sites
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| yawnmoth 2005-04-18, 2:55 am |
| I'm trying to make an HTTP request to connect to .htaccess password
protected sites and have a small question. Using Ethereal to see what
browsers do when sending out their requests, I believe I've found out
what the required header is:
Authorization: Basic somerandomstringofcharacters\r\n
Unfortunately, I'm not really sure how to encode the random string of
characters that follows "Authorization: Basic ". Anyone have any
ideas? 
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| Michael F Gordon 2005-04-19, 8:02 am |
| "yawnmoth" <terra1024@yahoo.com> writes:
>Authorization: Basic somerandomstringofcharacters\r\n
>Unfortunately, I'm not really sure how to encode the random string of
>characters that follows "Authorization: Basic ". Anyone have any
>ideas?
It's the string username:password (where username and password are
replaced with whatever credentials you need to access the site)
Base64 encoded. See section 11.1 of RFC 2068 for details.
Michael
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