Hi again,
RCurl is just smarter than me:
getURL("http://my.web.service",.opts=curlOptions(username=":"))
does the trick.
Don't know how I missed that yesterday.
Hope nobody wated time on this.
Cheers,
Thomas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TAPO (Thomas Agersten Poulsen)
> Sent: 6. juni 2011 16:10
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Cc: TAPO (Thomas Agersten Poulsen); JK (Jesper Agerbo Krogh)
> Subject: RCurl and kerberos
>
> 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.
>
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