On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 12:12:28 AM UTC-8, Niphlod wrote: > > if wininet can't do basic auth, is it web2py's fault ?!?!?! > curl is available also on windows :-P and it's pretty much the de-facto > reference. if it works with curl but not with wininet, it's wininet fault. >
So it seems. > > as for digest auth, no, web2py doesn't support it out of the box. > > Alas. /dps > On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 1:06:20 AM UTC+1, Dave S wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 12:39:27 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to use Basic Auth with my restful service; see >>> <URL: >>> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10/services#Access-Control) >>> for my starting point, although I'm doing a post. >>> >> >> >> Also, does Web2Py support Digest auth? >> <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt> >> >> /dps >> >> >>> >>> curl --request POST -TransferEncoding C:\dir1\test1.txt --user >>> us...@servery.com:pwd1 http: >>> //ww.zz.uu.39/uploader/default/shove/upstuff/ >>> <http://52.34.144.39/uploader/default/shove/uploadf/ServicesAPI.log> >>> test1.txt >>> >>> This works fine from the command line (centos or Win7, as long as curl >>> is installed). >>> >>> And I successfully used this with libcurl in my Windows test client (" >>> us...@servery.com" --> "user%40servery.com"). Tcpdump on the server >>> shows the u/p fields moved to an "Authorization:" header (Basic). >>> >>> When I try this from WinINet functions, the u/p stuff in the URL is >>> stripped but no "Authorization:" header is added. Setting the u/p in >>> *InternetConnect()* seems to be ignored. As a result, I get back a 303 >>> redirecting to the login page. (I'm using shake-the-box Rocket server for >>> prototyping, though I plan to move to nginx later.) >>> This MS page suggests that WinINet is expecting a 401, although it isn't >>> clear that applies to Basic Auth or just challenge-response authentication. >>> <URL: >>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384220%28v=vs.85%29.aspx >>> > >>> >>> Some StackOverflow hits suggest that I need to prepare the Basic Auth >>> header myself and use the* lpszHeaders* parameter of* HttpSendRequest()*. >>> Is that my only choice, or am I missing something? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Dave >>> /dps >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
