Re: robot authentication parameters

Dan Gildor (gyld@in-touch.com)
Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:16:31 -0800

Uh... my own home brewed perl based link checker does handle server
authorization. I can see if I can cut out the relevant code if you'd like.

Basically, its a couple of added lines to the server request (picked off of
the HTTP spec), with the password being base64 encoded.

-Dan

>Text item: Text_1
>
> Does anyone know how to modify the MOMspider webcrawler to allow the
> passing of authentication paramaters to the Netscape Commerce server
> for access restricted areas on the web server?
>
> Input is greatly appreciated!

============================================================================
Dan Gildor inTouch Technologies
Director of Technical Productions 1130 Sherman Avenue
gyld@in-touch.com Menlo Park, CA 94025
http://www.in-touch.com Tel: (415) 854-8036
"Making your net work" Fax: (415) 233-0155
============================================================================