[Gnu-arch-users] Re: can I specify authorisation in webdav? (fwd)

[Pau Aliagas]

Neither did this one.

Pau

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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:37:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Pau Aliagas <address@hidden>
To: Jan Hudec <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: can I specify authorisation in webdav?

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Jan Hudec wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:18:00 +0200, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> > 
> > I want to setup a mirror using webdav, but with basic ordigest 
> > authentication. Can I specify somehow user and password?
> > 
> > This is the error I get:
> > webdav error (pfs_mkdir): {archives} (401 Authorization Required)
> > 
> > I've tried http://address@hidden/url without success.
> 
> I would expect http://user:address@hidden/... or
> http://address@hidden/...
> 
> Looking at the source, @ definitely separates user+passwd from hostname,
> but I can't see the character separating user and passwd.

None of these work. It gets the user but not the password, so it cannot be 
used to mirror via webdav. I'm using digest authentication.

Pau