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From: Zachary Zolton <zachary.zolton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:33:15 -0600
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Subject: Re: using auth with http.request
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Cc: Mark Hahn <mark@boutiquing.com>
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In HTTP basic authentication, credentials are specified using headers
in the request:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication#Example

Many HTTP clients (e.g. curl and web browsers) will parse the
username:password out of the URL and set the header for you, but it
sounds like your client doesn't do this.

BTW, you'll need to specify what programming language you're using so
we can give you more prescriptive advice...

=97Zach

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Mark Hahn <mark@boutiquing.com> wrote:
> I want to use http.request to access couchdb but I need a URL like
> http://user:pwd@localhost:5984/db. =A0How do I do this? =A0When I put
> user:pwd@localhost in as the host option I get a domain error. =A0I see
> no other way to specify this.
>
> (I hope this isn't a double post. =A0I've been having email problems.)
>