Dear list, I would like to call a Kerberos-authenticated web-service from within R.
Curl can do it: $ curl --negotiate -u : "http://my.web.service/"; so I would expect that RCurl also has the capability, but I have not been able to find the correct options to set. listCurlOptions() does not return anything with negotiate, and searching the source of RCurl, the only thing I found was ./RCurl/R/curlInfo.S:names(CurlFeatureBits) = c("ipv6", "kerberos4", "ssl", "libz", "ntlm", "gssnegotiate", but e.g. getURL("http://my.web.service",.opts=curlOptions(username=":",httpauth="gssnegotiate")) does not work. Does anybody know if RCurl or another package is able to negotiate the GSS api or otherwise access a Kerberos enabled webservice and how? Testing was done in R 2.12.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS / Lucid. Thanks in advance, Thomas. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
