On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Yoav Schreiber wrote:

> I'm trying to connect a web server that requires basic authentication. I'm
> connecting it with the user and the password (curl_easy_setopt() with
> CURLOPT_USERPWD).
>
> The response I am getting from the server is error 401 with a set cookie in
> the response header (although the user and password were set correctly).

If the user name and password are correct, then why is the server not letting
you in?

> The Server expects me to resend the request with the cookie set (from
> looking at IE / Mozilla communication, this behavior does work and the
> Server response is valid - 200).

So it wants the autentication header _and_ the cookie?

> Is there any way I can overcome this with libcurl?

Provide the cookie in the request? There are multiple cookie options.

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