Thanks Daniel, This is starting to make sense.
Maybe you or someone else can tell me if this is possible with HTTP/apache: Is it possible to define username and password in the http string and have a machine login automatically to that web directory, just like you can with FTP, eg ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] logs you straight into the ftp server. If I protect the directory in apache, it always comes up asking for a username and password when I use a browser, even when I specify it in the URL, eg http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the browser still asks me for a username and password. Am I right in thinking that the HTTP server does not accept the username:password part of this string and just chops it off? Below is a packet dump of a telephone trying to upload a log file using the URL above, apache asks it to authenticate itself, even thought it was told to use http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] T APACHEIP:80 -> CLIENTIP:1036 [A] HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required..Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 21:20:32 GMT..Server: A pache/2.2.3 (CentOS)..WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="PUT"..Content-Length: 489..Con nection: close..Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1....<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI C "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">.<html><head>.<title>401 Authorization Required</titl e>.</head><body>.<h1>Authorization Required</h1>.<p>This server could not verify th at you.are authorized to access the document.requested. Either you supplied the wr ong.credential # T APACHEIP:80 -> CLIENTIP:1036 [AP] s (e.g., bad password), or your.browser doesn't understand how to supply.the creden tials required.</p>.<hr>.<address>Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at provisioning.xipt el.net Port 80</address>.</body></html>. Thanks in Advance Robert On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Danijel Tasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert McNaught wrote: >> I can see in the access log what the phone is trying to do, but cannot >> figure out how to allow the PUT method, which from what I gather is >> pretty uncommon. I have tried making permissions 777 for the >> directory the phone is trying to upload to incase that was the issue. > > Well, apache does not provide the PUT functionality by itself, > you have to write a CGI program to handle the PUT request. > > Once you have the CGI, the configuration goes as follows: > > # Define a directory for CGI-Skripts > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin > > # Install the PUT handler > Script PUT /cgi-bin/put > > # Make sure that the Handler is protected in some way > # Well this might be 2.0 syntax, I'm not sure > # if it's the same with 2.2 > <Location /cgi-bin/put> > AuthName PUT > AuthType Basic > AuthUserFile /path/to/user.file > require valid-user > </Location> > > Here you can find a simple PUT script in Python, (but you can write it > in any language you like, PHP, Perl, C, etc): > > http://users.ictp.it/~its/1999/webworkshop/lectures/douglas/remote.html > > It's not very good, but it shows, how it works. > > bye, > Da.Ta > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
