It was thus said that the Great Tim Johnson once stated:
>
> Hello
>
> I need to programmatically connect to a cgi script at a domain
> that is password protected.
> Let's say the URL for the script is
> http://www.somedomain.com/cgi-bin/py/dothis.py
> and
> http://www.somedomain.com is restricted access requiring a username and
> password
>
> 1)Can I supply the user and password as variables?
> Example:
>
> http://www.somedomain.com/cgi-bin/py/dothis.py?uservariable=user&pwdvariable=pwd
> If so:
> a)What is the name of the user variable?
> b)What is the name of the password variable?
> c)Are any other parameters required?
>
> 2)What server-sider configuration if any is required?
>
> Pointers to relevant documentation is invited.
> thank you
If it's the web server that's requesting authentication (a browser will
typically throw up a diaglog box asking for a username and password and if
not given, or incorrect, you'll get an HTTP 403 error), then you'll need to
read RFC-2616 and RFC-2617 [1]. Otherwise (if it's a CGI script that's
doing the authentication) you'll need to figure out what the script wants
and for that, you may want to start with the CGI spec [2] and possibly
cookies [3].
-spc (There might be tutorials you can use, but I'm not sure
which ones are good )
[1] Available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/
[2] http://www.w3.org/CGI/
[3] http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
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