accessing https URLS with basic authentification

Paul Williams p.williams at alkazar.net
Fri May 8 07:42:38 EDT 2009


Don't forget only Rev Enterprise supports https.



> Basic Auth should still work with https.
> 
> I think the problem might be to do with the verification of the
> SSL
> certificate.  Try running this before you make your https URL
> call:
> 
> libUrlSetSSLVerification false
> 
> The only thing that gives me pause in suggesting this as the cause,
> is
> that I would expect curl to also fail if there was a problem with
> the
> SSL certificate (i.e. the certification chain is broken).   Then
> again, maybe it is that curl has a chain of certs that will verify
> the
> cert of the site you are trying to connect with.  (I thought for
> some
> years now curl was not supplied with its own certs).
> 
> Bernard
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com>
> wrote:
> > I can load an "https" URL fine.
> >
> > I can load an "http" URL protected using 'basic' authentification,
> using
> > either the "http://user:password@www.somewhere.com/" format, or by
> using the
> > HTTPHeaders property to explicitly add an "Authorization: Basic
> xxx" header.
> >
> > But I can't load an "https" URL that's protected using basic
> > authentification, using either of the methods described above.
> >
> > Is this a known problem?  Can anyone else either reproduce this
> problem, or
> > alternatively confirm that they _can_ load such a URL?
> >
> > (NB1 this is on Mac OS X, Rev 3.0 and 3.5.)
> >
> > (NB2 I can retrieve the URL fine using "curl" in the terminal -
> and in fact
> > for now I'm working around the problem by using shell() to invoke
> curl.  But
> > I really want to handle URLs of this form in the same way I'm
> handling other
> > http URLs in my app, which give me more control.)
> >
> > Any insights gratefully received,
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Ben
> >
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