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Re: curl cannot authenticate with router using basic http authentication

From: Aleksandar Lazic via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:45:02 +0200

Hi.

Am 11.07.2019 um 13:23 schrieb Bruno Dantas via curl-users:
> I have a script that runs in my router every so often to reboot my modem.
>
> The script works with wget, but I would like to implement it with curl
> because this script is the only reason I have wget installed.
>
> The trouble is that while wget can authenticate with the modem, curl
> cannot. Here is the output of the relevant commands:
>
> --------------------
>
> bruno_at_box:/opt$ wget -O /dev/null
> http://admin:password@192.168.100.1/RouterStatus.htm
> --2019-07-10 13:48:56--
> http://admin:*password*@192.168.100.1/RouterStatus.htm
> Connecting to 192.168.100.1:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
> Authentication selected: Basic realm="NETGEAR CM400"
> Connecting to 192.168.100.1:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 50638 (49K) [text/html]
> Saving to: '/dev/null'
>
> /dev/null 100%[===================>] 49.45K --.-KB/s in
> 0.009s
>
> 2019-07-10 13:48:56 (5.24 MB/s) - '/dev/null' saved [50638/50638]
>
> bruno@box:/opt$ curl http://admin:password@192.168.100.1/RouterStatus.htm

how about:

curl -u admin:password http://admin:password@192.168.100.1/RouterStatus.htm

There are several user options in curl.

curl --help|egrep -i user

Best regards
aleks

> <HTML>
> <HEAD><TITLE>401 Unauthorized</TITLE></HEAD>
> </HTML><HR>
> Error: 401 Unauthorized</TITLE></HEAD>
>
> bruno@box:/opt$ curl --verbose http://admin:password@192.168.100.1/RouterStatus.
> htm
> * Trying 192.168.100.1...
> * TCP_NODELAY set
> * Connected to 192.168.100.1 (192.168.100.1) port 80 (#0)
> * Server auth using Basic with user 'admin'
>> GET /RouterStatus.htm HTTP/1.1
>> Host: 192.168.100.1
>> Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46cGFzc3dvcmQ=
>> User-Agent: curl/7.54.1
>> Accept: */*
>>
> < HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
> * Authentication problem. Ignoring this.
> < WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="NETGEAR CM400"
> < Server: NET-DK/1.0
> < Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 06:20:20 GMT
> < Set-Cookie: XSRF_TOKEN=2830035633; Path=/
> < Content-Type: text/html
> < Connection: close
> < Pragma: no-cache
> <
> <HTML>
> <HEAD><TITLE>401 Unauthorized</TITLE></HEAD>
> </HTML><HR>
> Error: 401 Unauthorized</TITLE></HEAD>
> * Closing connection 0
>
> bruno@box:/opt$ curl -I http://192.168.100.1
> HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
> WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="NETGEAR CM400"
> Server: NET-DK/1.0
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:54:58 GMT
> Set-Cookie: XSRF_TOKEN=3273351995; Path=/
> Content-Type: text/html
> Connection: close
> Pragma: no-cache
>
> --------------------
>
> I tried other authentication methods (e.g., --digest) without luck, which
> is not surprising (the modem reports it uses Basic http authentication).
> Any ideas how to make the authentication succeed?
>
> Thank you,
> Bruno "GNUser" Dantas
>
>
>
>
>
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