Re: How do you do authentication with url.el?

[raman]

Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:

:-) It's a little known fact, but this aspect of URLs was originally
created to enable accessing ftp content via URLs. > It does. Thanks Lee.
>
> 2015-11-13 1:45 GMT+00:00 Lee B <address@hidden>:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13 2015, Artur Malabarba wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to communicate with a Restful api using url.el. When it comes to
>>> authentication, their documentation simply says to call curl with "-u
>>> user:password".
>>>
>>> What is the url equivalent of that option in curl? That is, how do I 
>>> replicate
>>> the following command with url-retrieve-synchronously?
>>>  curl -u user:password https://gnu.org
>>
>> Does something like 'https://username:address@hidden' work?
>>
>> Lee.
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