Re: lynx-dev How to visit webpage with HTTP-AUthentication Required ?

[Henry Nelson]

> > >http://user_name:address@hidden
> 
> This is not valid URL sytax; lynx does not support it, although some other
> software does.  The "user_name:Password@" part will basically be ignored
> by lynx.  Lynx only recognizes it in the URL scheme for which it is
> actually defined, that is, FTP.
> 
> Embedding passwords in URLs is a bad idea.

"Bad" as it is, I have recently wanted to automate the downloading of
the Table of Contents of a journal when e-mail notification that it is
ready comes in.  It's not as if the login name and password are overly
sensitive information.  Wasn't there a way to "feed" the login name and
password to Lynx from the command line or from a file?  If there is,
could you remind us how to do that?  Thanks.

__Henry

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