#4 HTTP Authentication for Maintenance
It should be possible to mirror a FAQ site where the
http server requires a login with a username and
password. This should work with https also.
For reference, a message was posted to the mailing
list regarding this topic on October 8, 2001 as
follows:
> I want to set up a mirror of a FAQ site where the
http server requires me to
> login with a username and password. Is this
possible and if so, how?
You would need to replace the cheeseball HTTP GET
code in maintenance.pm
to use calls on a real Perl HTTP module that knows
how to speak HTTP
Basic Authentication. It wouldn't be terribly
difficult for someone
familiar with Perl; in fact, someone on this list may
already have done
something like this.
--Jon
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