[Webtest] Authorization

[Tate Austin]

Thank you, that works.  Lesson learned for the day; browsers do things
beyond the http spec that we are sometimes unaware of.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Schroeder" <jan-schroeder@gmx.net>
To: <webtest@gate2.canoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Webtest] Authorization


> Sorry, I think I was wrong. It is possible that the username:password in
> the url is just a shortcut that the browsers understand.
> The browser might then just issue a regular http request and put the
> username + password in the request header.
> Not sure about this but it sounds reasonable, doesn't it?
>
> Just use the 'username' and 'password' attribute of the 'invoke' element
> in your web test.
> http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/syntax.html#5
> This should be the right way to do this anyway....
>
>
> Jan
>
> Tate Austin wrote:
>
> >that should work but for some reason canoo still pitches an error.  If I
do
> >that in a browser everything is fine, but somehow canoo still sniffs the
> >page as needing authorization and throws an exception it seems.  That is
> >useful information though, thanks.
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Jan Schroeder" <jan-schroeder@gmx.net>
> >To: <webtest@gate2.canoo.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:33 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Webtest] Authorization
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Just prepend username:password@ before the server name.
> >>For instance if the page 'http://myServer.com/someProtectedPage.html'
> >>causes the gray pop up box to come up
> >>(this means it is protected using BASIC authentication), send a request
> >>
> >>
> >like
> >
> >
> >>http://myUserName:myPassword@myServer.com/someProtectedPage.html
> >>
> >>hope this helps.
> >>
> >>Jan
> >>Tate Austin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello everyone, I was wondering if any of you have had experience with
> >>>authorization and canoo?  The situation is that I have a page I have a
> >>>
> >>>
> >login
> >
> >
> >>>and password setup in such a way that a box pops up for the user to
> >>>
> >>>
> >submit
> >
> >
> >>>their username and password.  I sort of assumed this is a common
scenario
> >>>and that canoo has a means of submitting information to one of these
> >>>
> >>>
> >boxes?
> >
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