IStream with user and password

> "German Arduino" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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>>I'm trying to develop some little tool to read and format data from a
>>swiki.
>>I try to use
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>>(IStream onURL: 'http://localhost/miswiki/') contents asString
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>>but the swiki is configured to ask user/password also to read it.
>>¿How I can pass us/pw with IStream?
>>Thanks in Advance by the help.
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> I am not sure if there is an easy way to do that anymore.  I believe that
> one used to be able to do something like this:
> (IStream onURL: 'http://user:password@.../') contents asString.
> However MS removed the ability to use that style URL in IE because it was
> being used for "fishing".  Try the above approach and see if it works, it
> just depends where MS has removed support for that approach.  If they just
> blocked it from the IE UI the above code may still work.
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> If the above does not work then you may be able to drive IE, or parts of it,
> or make your own http connection.  Someone else may be able to offer more
> guidance on that.
>
> Chris
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> German Arduino wrote:
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>>(IStream onURL: 'http://localhost/miswiki/') contents asString
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>>but the swiki is configured to ask user/password also to read it.
>>
>>¿How I can pass us/pw with IStream?
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> Personally, I'd drop the MS stuff and use Steve Waring's HTTP client
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>     http://www.dolphinharbor.org/dh/projects/httpclient/index.html
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> I haven't used it much, but for the small uses I have made of it, it has worked
> well.
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> (Thanks Steve !)
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>     -- chris
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