On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Damien wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking into opening an url on a server which requires
authentication.
After failing to find some kind of connection structure to fill in I
turned to explicitly stating the credentials in the url itself (e.g.
"http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]").
Sadly this didn't do the trick either and both source() and url()
failed trying to resolve the username ()
Is there anything I missed in the documentation/internet/groups?
If not could I maybe add to the existing R functions as it doesn't
seem too far of a stretch to allow the username and password in the
url string fed to the web server?
Look at the RCurl package: it is more like download.file than url, though,
and you could perhaps wse the "wget" method of download.file.
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