Re: Sending username/password
| From: | Micah Gersten | Date: | Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:34:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Sending username/password | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 | Groups: | php.general |
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Jay Moore wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 21:07 +0100, Stut wrote:
>>> On 5 Sep 2008, at 21:05, Robert Cummings wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:01 -0500, Jay Moore wrote:
>>>>> Greetings list!
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible (and if so, how) to send username and password
>>>>> information to a website with PHP?
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to submit some information to some network devices
>>>>> we have,
>>>>> but they require login credentials to proceed. I would like to
>>>>> bypass
>>>>> the traditional username/password prompt so I can automate the
>>>>> procedure.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope this makes sense.
>>>> If you mean http auth style login information then you do the
>>>> following:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.somedomain.com:user@password/the/path/to/resource.html
>>> I think he meant
>>>
>>> http://user:password@www.somedomwin.com/the/path/to/resource.html
>>
>> Yeah, that's it lol :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob.
>
> FYI - Typing this response on my old 286 because Rob's original
> suggestion made my 37.612-core Core2Duo box (used for notepad and
> newsgroups only) explode.
>
> Jay
>
That'll teach you to use Google Chrome. ;)
Thank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com