From: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: How to non-interactively provide auth info to URL, and how to force URL to use HTTP AUTH
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:02:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b31caf90912151202j7dc91abat65e21a11aa636ef0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I've made a lot of use out of url.el over the years, and it's for the
most part been a nice experience. But I haven't been able to wrap my
brain around how to use HTTP AUTH in a nice-to-the-user way.
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'd really rather not resort to shelling out to curl, but this is *very
easy* to do with curl (a simple "curl -u user:pass url-to-api-call" will
do), and it's not at all clear how to do it with url.el.
Any suggestions on how to proceed would be most welcome!
Thanks,
Ted
next reply other threads:[~2009-12-15 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-15 20:02 Edward O'Connor [this message]
2009-12-16 0:36 ` How to non-interactively provide auth info to URL, and how to force URL to use HTTP AUTH Juri Linkov
2009-12-16 8:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-16 6:30 ` Ari Roponen
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