That probably will not work since it is not what was designed for. I am not sure why it did not work thou. If the username is the email, did you escape it?
On Dec 30, 1:16 am, David Marko <dma...@tiscali.cz> wrote: > I simply tried to call the method with URLcontaining the username/ > password. e.g. tttp://username:p...@localhost:8080/.... . Its just > internal call so its fine that username/pwd is in URL. I simply tried > this in browser, but login form apeared instead. > > David > > On Dec 29, 10:25 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > The allow basic login allows you to call functions that > > @auth.requires_login() by passing the credential using basic auth for > > example call the url using wget and curl. > > > How are you using it? > > > On Dec 29, 2:59 pm, David Marko <dma...@tiscali.cz> wrote: > > > > How the settings 'auth.settings.allow_basic_login = True' is supposed > > > to work? I tried to login to protected method('....@auth.requires_login > > > ()') via basic auth, but was not succesfull. Is there some additional > > > setting for protected methods or '....@auth.requires_login()'' is simply > > > used for both auth ? Can someone explain please? > > > > David > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.