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Re: http authentication is not working..

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:19:19 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Michael March wrote:

> lappy:HUDSON mmarch$ curl -u foo-user:bar-pass https://addressbook.acme.com
>
> <title>401 Authorization Required</title>

Use LiveHTTPHeaders, record what your Firefox sends. Then compare that exact
header with what curl sends. Basic auth is simply user+password base64-encoded
so they should be identical.

And if they're not, just base64-decode them both and see what they sent and
then adapt.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2009-12-10

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