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Forum => newLISP in the real world => Topic started by: ax0n on January 17, 2009, 09:03:22 AM

Title: Making newLISP get-url work with http basic auth
Post by: ax0n on January 17, 2009, 09:03:22 AM
I mentioned getting newLISP working with twitter (//http) in passing on HiR, and it came up to use wget when you need user/password pairs for HTTP Basic Auth. I came up with this to create a working Basic Auth header for get-url.  You must set 'url 'user and 'pass first, obviously.


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(set 'hedr (append "Authorization: Basic " (base64-enc (append user ":" pass)) "rnrn"))
(set 'contents (get-url url 5000 hedr))
 

Hopefully, this helps some people. I don't like relying on external programs if I can avoid it.
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