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Re: Basic Authentication from command-line cURL

From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez_at_ivazquez.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:59:03 -0400

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:40 -0700, pURbA wrote:
> what do u mean by automatically? does it mean it
> converts the username:password using base 64 function?

It does what's needed according to RFC2617, which is what was described.

ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2617.txt

> btw, i've tried as u suggested, it still gives me the
> same result '401 Unauthorized'

The problem is then at the other side in that they don't have the
username/password setup.

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Received on 2005-07-19