From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ari Roponen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to non-interactively provide auth info to URL, and how to force URL to use HTTP AUTH Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:30:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <3b31caf90912151202j7dc91abat65e21a11aa636ef0@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260945334 15795 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2009 06:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:35:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 07:35:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NKnTr-0007yY-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:35:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKnTr-0004A3-93 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:35:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKnTh-00049B-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:35:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKnTc-00046s-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55495 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKnTc-00046m-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36782) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKnTb-000330-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NKnTU-0007py-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from dsl-jklbrasgw1-fecbdf00-152.dhcp.inet.fi ([80.223.203.152]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from ari.roponen by dsl-jklbrasgw1-fecbdf00-152.dhcp.inet.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:35:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-jklbrasgw1-fecbdf00-152.dhcp.inet.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d6f/Q4TkX6wnMb2Yf/BjXiSfDX4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118647 Archived-At: Hi, "Edward O'Connor" 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