On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Fiber McGee wrote: > The message below from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > was forwarded by one of the list maintainers. > > >Hello sir, > > > >Im visiting a webpage which requires HTTP-Authentication. but lynx is not > >asking me any password but giving the direct error that this is forbidden. > > > >I have tried to access that website with this link also but its again not > >working HTTP Authentication in lynx works; it is impossible to help further without more concrete information about your problem. > > > >http://user_name:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not valid URL sytax; lynx does not support it, although some other software does. The "user_name:Password@" part will basically be ignored by lynx. Lynx only recognizes it in the URL scheme for which it is actually defined, that is, FTP. Embedding passwords in URLs is a bad idea. Klaus ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
