On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:12:34PM +0000, Andrew M. Bishop wrote: > > i am currently trying to see if specifing my userid and password > > in the url itself helps as a workaround (slashdot seems to allow that) > When a username and password is specified in the URL it modifies the > URL in a predictable way. There is also a well defined way that the > requests are made. A request for a page that has a password is always > denied if there is no password provided. This means that WWWOFFLE can > try fetching the page with and without the password.
well, in this case it is not http-auth but something like url?user=foo&passwd=bar and unfortunately it does not work, als all slashdot does, is sending a redirect to the front page where the appropriate cookie is set *sigh* but coming to think of it, seeing how the monitor stuff is just a way to automaticly request pages, i could probably replace it with a script that will make the appropriate requests with cookies, to be called when fetch is invoked. greetings, martin. -- by the end of 2001 i'd like to find a new job anywhere in the world, doing pike development and/or training and/or unix and roxen system administration. -- pike programmer Traveling in New Zealand (www|db).hb2.tuwien.ac.at unix (iaeste|bahai).or.at (www.archlab|iaeste).tuwien.ac.at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org mud.at is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B"ahr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
