http://login:passwd at url supported

[James Gallagher]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:15 PM, John Caron wrote:

> Does dods support the http://login:passwd@url syntax? I couldnt  
> find it in the 2.0 spec. If not, is there any standard way to deal  
> with password protected servers?
>

Yes it does, although authentication is not part of the spec (not all  
servers implement it, although mine do). I decided to break it our  
and eventually write a separate spec for authentication.

James

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