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Bug 61165 - send HTTP auth to external downloader
send HTTP auth to external downloader
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: galeon
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Mozilla interaction
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Philip Langdale
Philip Langdale
gnome[unmaintained]
: 65826 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-09-25 19:34 UTC by Gavin Brown
Modified: 2014-08-26 19:50 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Gavin Brown 2001-09-25 19:34:14 UTC 
When passing a URL to an external downloader such as wget or GTM, it would
be useful to pass any HTTP authentication along too. If you're trying to
download a file that's behind HTTP auth, the downloader won't know and the
download will fail. I've checked GTM and wget and they both support the
"http://user:pass@host/file/" syntax which should make it a trivial thing
to do.

Cheers.
Comment 1 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2001-09-26 16:58:34 UTC 
No idea if this is possible ... but would be good
Comment 2 Philip Langdale 2001-10-07 22:50:09 UTC 
WORKSFORME.
Comment 3 Philip Langdale 2001-10-20 20:26:11 UTC 
marking NEEDINFO as I haven't heard anything more on this.
Comment 4 Yanko Kaneti 2002-01-19 18:16:48 UTC 
from 65826: 

Sorry about the long delay, the mail got totally lost

here's a testcase:
http://www.sipsolutions.de/demo/random.txt
and
http://www.sipsolutions.de/demo/random.zip

The zip is the identical file with a different name so it gets a
different mime type and galeon passes it on to GTM.

login:
  user: Administrator
  pass: Administrator
Comment 5 Yanko Kaneti 2002-01-19 18:17:02 UTC 
*** Bug 65826 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Yanko Kaneti 2002-01-19 18:19:43 UTC 
*** Bug 69110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 André Klapper 2014-08-26 19:50:21 UTC 
Galeon has not seen any code changes since May 2010:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/galeon/log

This project is not under active development anymore and got recently archived in GNOME Git.

It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone
takes the responsibility for active development again. 
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