Thanx. I should have known it was in a header. Also, I intended to send this to the node.js mailing list. Sorry for the trouble.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Zachary Zolton <[email protected]> wrote: > In HTTP basic authentication, credentials are specified using headers > in the request: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication#Example > > Many HTTP clients (e.g. curl and web browsers) will parse the > username:password out of the URL and set the header for you, but it > sounds like your client doesn't do this. > > BTW, you'll need to specify what programming language you're using so > we can give you more prescriptive advice... > > —Zach > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: >> I want to use http.request to access couchdb but I need a URL like >> http://user:pwd@localhost:5984/db. How do I do this? When I put >> user:pwd@localhost in as the host option I get a domain error. I see >> no other way to specify this. >> >> (I hope this isn't a double post. I've been having email problems.) >> > -- Mark Hahn Website Manager [email protected] 949-229-1012
