On 8 Sep, 20:15, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Damien wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I'm looking into opening an url on a server which requires > >authentication. > > > After failing to find some kind of connection structure to fill in I > > turned to explicitly stating the credentials in the url itself (e.g. > > "http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"). > > Sadly this didn't do the trick either and both source() and url() > > failed trying to resolve the username () > > > Is there anything I missed in the documentation/internet/groups? > > If not could I maybe add to the existing R functions as it doesn't > > seem too far of a stretch to allow the username and password in the > > url string fed to the web server? > > Look at the RCurl package: it is more like download.file than url, though, > and you could perhaps wse the "wget" method of download.file.
Thank you for the quick reply, it seems that the argument "--internet2" did solve my immediate problem but I'll have a look at RCurl too. Best Regards, Damien ______________________________________________ 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.
