Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] HTTP authentication

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Raindog <ra...@ma...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Besides support for the Authorization header, is there any other
> support? IE: for Authorization: Basic <b64 encoded username:psw>. I had
> to b64 encode my own string and add the header explicitly. Also, support
> for digest authentication would be great.
>

There is no explicit support for Authorization, you really have to add
the headers you need to put in your request.

The reason the request object is made easy to manipulate is so that
these things like Authorization can be written external of the HTTP
client. You can write up your own routines to add authorization the
requests.

These higher level functionality would be nice to have, but they're
not yet critical at this point.

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
deanberris.com