Re: [tclwebtest] [Fwd: Re: tclwebtest http authentication]

[Grzegorz A. H. <gr...@ef...>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:37:22AM -0800, Chris Rasch wrote:
> > Thanks for writing tclwebtest and making it available under
> > the GPL.  I was wondering if tclwebtest can handle basic http
> > authentication?  A cursory glance through the code suggests no,
> > but I was wondering if I had missed something.
> 
> It doesn't handle it unfortunately. You are free to add it
> of course, patches are welcome ;-). I don't know if the tcl
> http package can handle it - in any way the place to add that
> functionality would be within the do_request proc by modifying
> the headers variable I think.

Chris, I talked with Til in IRC and maybe for tomorrow you could
have a patch supporting this. Basically it would add the following
function to the api:

   http_auth prefix_url user pass

It would set the user/pass for that prefix_url. Since .htaccess
can change for each directory, you could have different prefix_url
with the same domain, and tclwebtest would search first the longest
matching prefix, and use the user/pass directly notifying of this
in the output log.

Do you consider this ok? Maybe we left out something.

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