Hi Valerie
Valerie Obenchain wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone successfully used RCurl for posting data to a
password-protected site?
Yes. I just set up a sample form to test with and the following
all work
# Perl script (and HTML form for testing in the browser) taken from
# http://www.elated.com/articles/form-validation-with-perl-and-cgi/
# Provide the login & password directly
postForm("http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/testPassword/form_validation.cgi";,
your_name = "Duncan",
your_age = "35-55",
your_sex = "m",
submit = "submit",
.opts = list(userpwd = "bob:welcome"))
# Get the login & password in ~/.netrc
postForm("http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/testPassword/form_validation.cgi";,
your_name = "Duncan",
your_age = "35-55",
your_sex = "m",
submit = "submit",
.opts = list(netrc = TRUE))
# Get the login & password from a different netrc file
postForm("http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/testPassword/form_validation.cgi";,
your_name = "Duncan",
your_age = "35-55",
your_sex = "m",
submit = "submit",
.opts = list(netrc = TRUE,
netrc.file =
"/Users/duncan/Projects/org/omegahat/R/RCurl/inst/examples/omg.netrc"))
So let me know what problems you are having and more details
about the OS, version of libcurl, and a sample URL to which
to post, etc.
D.
>I
have tired using option netrc=1 with both postForm and curlPerform (with
postfields option) but can't authenticate.
I would happily provide more details if some one has had some experience
with this.
Thanks very much.
Valerie
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