Duncan,
Thank you for the examples. I had tried all of these different options
for authentication but had no luck. I was getting a "100 continue" and
then a "401 unauthorized" response. This morning the owners of the
server I was trying to access discovered a bug with their api when using
basic authorization. Evidently the code on their side was explicitly
checking that the request method was GET, hence why all of my POST
attempts were failing. They are in the process of fixing that code and
my guess is that when I am able to try again the RCurl post functions
will work just fine.
I did have one other RCurl question I'd like to ask you about the
parseHTTPHeader function.
The parser appears to parse on spaces, so when the error message is more
than one word (eg, "not found"), the message returned is "not". I have
modified the parseHTTPHeader function so that it works for me. I may not
have done this in the most efficient way but at least you can see what I
was trying to do.
Below I have pasted my modification for the parseHTTPHeader function
which I am calling parseHeader. Please let me know if you think this is
a bug or if I am just using the function incorrectly.
Thank you for the help.
Valerie
#---------------------------------------------------
#Sample code:
reader <- basicTextGatherer()
header <- basicTextGatherer()
handle <- getCurlHandle()
myopts <- curlOptions( netrc=1, httpheader=c(Authorization=mypwd,
Accept="test/xml",
Accept="multipart/*",
'Content-Type'="text/xml; charset=utf-8"),
postfields=body,
writefunction=reader$update, headerfunction=header$update,
ssl.verifyhost=FALSE,
ssl.verifypeer=FALSE, followlocation=TRUE)} else
curlPerform(url=myUrl, .opts=myopts, curl=handle)
h <- parseHeader(header$value())
status <- h$status
message <- h$statusMessage
#----------------------------------------------------
#Modified parse function:
parseHeader <- function (lines)
{
if (length(lines) < 1)
return(NULL)
if (length(lines) == 1)
lines = strsplit(lines, "\r\n")[[1]]
status = lines[1]
lines = lines[-c(1, length(lines))]
lines = gsub("\r\n", "", lines)
if (FALSE) {
header = lines[-1]
header <- read.dcf(textConnection(header))
}
else {
els <- sapply(lines, function(x) strsplit(x, ":[ ]*"))
header <- lapply(els, function(x) x[2])
names(header) <- sapply(els, function(x) x[1])
}
els <- strsplit(status, " ")[[1]]
header[["status"]] <- as.integer(els[2])
# new code below
hstring <- NULL
for(i in 3:length(els)) hstring <- paste(hstring," ",els[i],sep="")
hstring <- substr(hstring,2,nchar(hstring))
header[["statusMessage"]] <- hstring
header
}
Duncan Temple Lang wrote:
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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