***BOGO*** Re: [PHP] Sending username/password

[Jay Moore <jaymoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/the/path/to/resource.html.
>
> Jay: How does the device ask for the username and password? Is it a form 
> on the web page, a window from the browser, or what?
>
> -Stut

Stut -

Standard browser prompt.  I'm usually pretty good with PHP stuff and 
I've bypassed normal forms many times before, but I've never tried to 
bypass the browser popup (.htaccess or similar, I presume?).

Jay

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