oddly enough there's a "libcurl vs wininet" page on curl's site ...
https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/wininet.html On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 10:19:41 AM UTC+1, Dave S wrote: > > On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 12:12:28 AM UTC-8, Niphlod wrote: >> >> if wininet can't do basic auth, is it web2py's fault ?!?!?! >> curl is available also on windows :-P and it's pretty much the de-facto >> reference. if it works with curl but not with wininet, it's wininet fault. >> > > So it seems. > > >> >> as for digest auth, no, web2py doesn't support it out of the box. >> >> > Alas. > > /dps > > >> On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 1:06:20 AM UTC+1, Dave S wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 12:39:27 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm trying to use Basic Auth with my restful service; see >>>> <URL: >>>> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10/services#Access-Control) >>>> for my starting point, although I'm doing a post. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Also, does Web2Py support Digest auth? >>> <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt> >>> >>> /dps >>> >>> >>>> >>>> curl --request POST -TransferEncoding C:\dir1\test1.txt --user >>>> us...@servery.com:pwd1 http: >>>> //ww.zz.uu.39/uploader/default/shove/upstuff/ >>>> <http://52.34.144.39/uploader/default/shove/uploadf/ServicesAPI.log> >>>> test1.txt >>>> >>>> This works fine from the command line (centos or Win7, as long as curl >>>> is installed). >>>> >>>> And I successfully used this with libcurl in my Windows test client (" >>>> us...@servery.com" --> "user%40servery.com"). Tcpdump on the server >>>> shows the u/p fields moved to an "Authorization:" header (Basic). >>>> >>>> When I try this from WinINet functions, the u/p stuff in the URL is >>>> stripped but no "Authorization:" header is added. Setting the u/p in >>>> *InternetConnect()* seems to be ignored. As a result, I get back a >>>> 303 redirecting to the login page. (I'm using shake-the-box Rocket server >>>> for prototyping, though I plan to move to nginx later.) >>>> This MS page suggests that WinINet is expecting a 401, although it >>>> isn't clear that applies to Basic Auth or just challenge-response >>>> authentication. >>>> <URL: >>>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384220%28v=vs.85%29.aspx >>>> > >>>> >>>> Some StackOverflow hits suggest that I need to prepare the Basic Auth >>>> header myself and use the* lpszHeaders* parameter of* >>>> HttpSendRequest()*. Is that my only choice, or am I missing something? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> /dps >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
