libUrlBasicAuthToken(<name>,<password>)

[Dave Cragg]

On 23 Jul 2004, at 20:22, macdev wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am looking at the results. However, my app is a little more 
> complicated. I am trying to post a file using
> multipartformdata and it works when I post to a window server.
>
> It doesn't work when I post to a apache box. it seems that windows has 
> no problems.
>
> It is getting the return page of the cgi script but it is not posting 
> files that I need to post.
> my runrev app spits back the results of the post.
>
> I made a local html page using the same  http://username:password@url 
> and the same form variables and it works with both servers. a local 
> html page launched from a local browser has no problems.
>
To authenticate with the remote server, there is no real need to use 
libUrlSetAuthToken. You can just use the url format 
http://name:password@whatever.com. (Be sure to urlEncode the name and 
password if they contain any funny characters.)

libUrlSetAuthToken was recently added to give support for doing proxy 
authentication (the documentation for which is coming shortly).

However, in your original mail, you mention "digest" authentication. 
Right now, libUrl only supports the Basic authentication scheme.

Regarding multipart formdata, is your problem with authentication or 
something else? Derek mentioned checking "the result". Perhaps you 
misunderstood him (apolgies if you didn't), but the result function 
will report any errors returned from url calls. E.g.

   post somedata to url tUrl
   if the result is not empty then
      ## an error occurred
      answer the result
   else
      ## whatever
   end if

Cheers
Dave