[axel-devel] [axel-Bugs][310785] Support for basic HTTP authentication

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Bugs item #310785, was opened at 2008-05-12 18:12
Status: Open
Priority: 2
Submitted By: Alois Hammer (aloishammer-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Support for basic HTTP authentication 


Initial Comment:
I love Axel's performance, but it would be much more useful to me if it could support basic HTTP username/pwd auth.

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>Comment By: Philipp Hagemeister (phihag-guest)
Date: 2009-01-09 22:53

Message:
pion: We're already doing that. Sorry I forgot to mention it here, this feature is actually already implemented!

Just use the URL http://user:password@host/request . There are still some quirks with special characters ("@", "/", ":" will likely not work, but if neither nor password nor your username contains those, it will work fine). We just forgot to document it.

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Comment By: My Name (pion-guest)
Date: 2009-01-09 20:27

Message:
Would it be that much extra code to parse the input url, and send auth headers if needed?

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Comment By: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag  (appaji-guest)
Date: 2008-05-13 05:13

Message:
Hi Alois,

In SVN there is support for adding custom headers to the requests that axel sends out.  You can do HTTP basic auth using that (ofcourse you'll have to craft the base64 yourself).

In the interest of keeping options in axel to the minimum (and hence keep axel small), I suggest that the custom header support be used.

Do let me know how this goes :)

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