- From: Matthew Denner <matt@wdi.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:50:34 +0100
- To: www-talk@w3.org
> I've set the authentication of the path /MyPages/MySecret/ to username=John > and password=sesame on the WebSite 1.1 WWW-server. > Then I want to use a Java-applet to open a html page in that > password-locked path by sending HTTP request header ALONG WITH the username > and password, so that NO pop-up username/password dialog will appear and > just strait-forward to that page. > So, my question is what is the HTTP request header would be ? > Is that : > GET /MyPages/MySecret/index.html\r\n > Content-type: blah blah\r\n > Authenticate: blah blah\r\n > . > . > . > \r\n > Close, but what you've given is a mixture of HTTP requests and response. The actual HTTP/1.0 request should be: GET /MyPages/MySecret/index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n Authenticate: base64-encoded-string\r\n \r\n The 'Content-type' header is sent from the server to the client to inform the browser of the, well, type of content contained within the response. Cheers, Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Denner email: matt@wdi.co.uk Senior Programmer tel: (+44)(0) 1305 871 543 Abbotsbury Software Ltd fax: (+44)(0) 1305 871 688 ENGLAND mobile: (+44)(0) 385 795 492 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Received on Tuesday, 27 August 1996 08:55:22 UTC