Re: authentification with url-retrieve

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hi Ted!
Thank you very much for your precious indications.
I will try that tomorrow and tell you how it worked.

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:39:19 +0100 Thierry Volpiatto 
> <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> TV> Is some body knowing how to pass login and password to 
> TV> url-retrieve/synchronously when doing an https request? 
> TV> (without prompt)
>
> TV> url-auth.el is not very well documented.
>
> Through auth-source you can do:
> (from the comments section, to be put into the manual eventually)
>
> ;; Easy setup:
> ;; (require 'auth-source)
> ;; (customize-variable 'auth-sources) ;; optional
>
> ;; now, whatever sources you've defined for password have to be available
>
> ;; if you want encrypted sources, which is strongly recommended, do
> ;; (require 'epa-file)
> ;; (epa-file-mode)
> ;; (setq epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption t) ; VERY 
> important
>
> ;; before you put some data in ~/.authinfo.gpg (the default place)
>
> ;;; For url-auth authentication (HTTP/HTTPS), you need to use:
>
> ;;; machine yourmachine.com:80 port http login testuser password testpass
>
> ;;; This will match any realm and authentication method (basic or
> ;;; digest).  If you want finer controls, explore the url-auth source
> ;;; code and variables.
>
> I would recommend just this for auth-sources:
>
> (setq auth-sources ((:source "~/.authinfo.gpg" :host t :protocol t)))
>
> Let me know if this works for you.  The idea of auth-sources is so you
> don't have to customize 20 places with user names and passwords, so it
> works for things like Gnus passwords and Tramp as well.
>
> Ted
>

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