url authorization?
url authorization?
- Subject: url authorization?
- From: Francis Lachapelle <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:47:58 -0500 (EST)
Hi
I'm trying to fetch a HTML page that requires user authentication. I'm
using NSURL and it simply doesn't work.
I first tried the easy way, by defining my URL string with the following
pattern:
http://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-path>
I did the test on my personal web server (Apache) and I could check
from the log files that no authorization was sent with the request.
I verified RFC 1738 (section 3.1) and it looks like this username/password
syntax is not actually standard for the http protocol (only ftp!?).
So I tried to define explicitly the authorization header. Section 11.1 of
RFC 1945 explains the basic authorization scheme, which is the scheme I
wanted to use. To set the header value, I used the "setProperty:forKey:"
method of the NSURL class.
[url setProperty: @"Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==" forKey:
@"Authorization"];
Still no success. No authorization request. Since Apple's documentation
for the NSURL class is not complete, I don't know if I'm using the right
methods.
What it very embarassing though is that both approches work great under
Linux with GNUstep .. :/
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If anyone wants to perform some tests, I would suggest using Apple's
mailing list archvies :)
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:
@"
http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2001/Jul/18.html";];
[url setProperty: @"Basic YXJjaGl2ZXM6YXJjaGl2ZXM=" forKey:
@"Authorization"];
Thanks!
Francis
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