Thanks Martin!
Valerie
Martin Morgan wrote:
Hi Valerie --
curlPerform is expecting the url to be an option that is named, i.e.,
myopts <-curlOptions(netrc=1)
url <- "http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/testPassword/index.html";
cat(curlPerform(url=url, .opts=myopts))
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html> <head>
<title>Basic Password Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Basic Password Test</h1>
This is a test page.
If you can read it, you have correctly supplied
the password.
<hr>
<address><a href="http://stat.ucdavis.edu/~duncan";>Duncan Temple Lang</a>
<a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]></a></address>
<!-- hhmts start -->
Last modified: Sun Aug 1 13:57:44 PDT 2004
<!-- hhmts end -->
</body> </html>
(also curlPerform(url=url, netrc=1))
Martin
Valerie Obenchain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello,
I am having trouble getting the curlPerform function to authenticate
using the .netrc file. From the documentation I've read it
certainly seems as though this function should be able to authenticate
via the .netrc file.
The example I am using here comes from the "R as a Web Client- the
RCurl package" paper and demonstrates using the .netrc file to access
the www.omegahat.org page. Authentication takes place by RCurl (curl)
reading the username and password out of the .netrc file in the user's
home directory. For this example the username is bob and password is
welcome. The .netrc file in the user's home directory contains the
following information:
machine www.omegahat.org
login bob
password welcome
I can successfully use the .netrc file with the getURL function:
> getURL("http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/testPassword/index.html";, netrc=1)
[1] "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN\">\n<html> <head>\n<title>Basic Password Test</title>\n</head>\n\n<body>\n<h1>Basic Password Test</h1>\nThis is a test page.\nIf you can read it, you have correctly supplied\nthe password.\n\n\n<hr>\n<address><a href=\"http://stat.ucdavis.edu/~duncan\";>Duncan Temple Lang</a>\n<a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]></a></address>\n<!--
hhmts start -->\nLast modified: Sun Aug 1 13:57:44 PDT 2004\n<!--
hhmts end -->\n</body> </html>\n"
When I try to do the same with the curlPerform function I get an error
saying that the curl option is not recognized. I have tried 3
different
ways of instructing the curlPerform function to use the .netrc file
(in the .opts, curl handle and the ... argument) but got the same
error message each time.
# Failed attempt using .opts construct
myopts <-curlOptions(netrc=1)
curlPerform("http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/testPassword/index.html";,
.opts=myopts)
# Failed attempt using curl handle
handle <- getCurlHandle(netrc=1)
curlPerform("http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/testPassword/index.html";,
curl=handle)
# Failed attempt using ... construct
curlPerform("http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/testPassword/index.html";,
netrc=1)
Common error message for all failed attempts:
Error in mapCurlOptNames(names(.els), asNames = TRUE) :
Unrecognized CURL options:
Valid curl option names are listed by typing listCurlOptions() and
netrc is one of the options. The mapCurlOptNames code is not available
for the user to view so I'm not able to deduce anything more from the
error message.
Thanks,
Valerie
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