According to Gold: > Some stats; > RedHat 7.3 > php-4.2.2-mgd_1.4.4 > htdig-3.2.0-2.011302 > apache-1.3.27-3 > > One thing I noticed was that when lynx was given the -auth param it > would only use it after it received a 401 error so my script had to send > the 401 header to tell lynx to send the auth details. Does htdig work > in this manner or does it send the username:password with every call by > default?
The latter. If a username and password are given, either by the -u option to htdig, or by the authorization attribute in the config file, htdig will add an "Authorization: Basic" header to every request, followed by the encrypted credentials. It doesn't wait for a 401 error to do so. With htdig 3.2, you need at least -vvvvvvv (debug/verbosity level 7) to see what the full request looks like that htdig sends to the server. (I don't know why it has to be so high - in 3.1.x you'd get it at a debug level of 3.) In any case, there was a week-long bug in the CVS development code for 3.2, which Red Hat unfortunately "immortalized" by using that particular snapshot. This bug caused htdig not to set the credentials properly. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69023 I recommend you try the 3.2.0b6 release, which just came out this week. It has tons of bug fixes that came out since the two and a half year old version you're fighting with now. I don't think it's out in RPM yet, but building it from source is well worth the effort. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
