Hi Christian

Thanks for your hint, - this is exactly what I was looking for!


Regards,
Mike


From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
To: Mike Cobo <mikecobo@yahoo.com>
Cc: "basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de" <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] User and Password in REST URL

Hi Mike,

If you use basic authentication (which is the default), you can
specify your credentials in the URL:

  http://tester:pwd@mydomain.com:8984/rest?run=scripts/myscript.xq

Hope this helps,
Christian



On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Mike Cobo <mikecobo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When invokling an XQuery via REST, eg.
> http://mydomain.com:8984/rest?run=scripts/myscript.xq I'm prompted to type
> in the user and password for authentication.
> This is ok when a script needs user authentication to connect to a database.
> But when the script only uses the XQuery processor to output a (generated)
> HTML page it would be easier if the user authentication could by included in
> the URL, eg
>
> http://mydomain.com:8984/rest?run=scripts/myscript.xq&user=tester&password=pwd
>
> Is there a way to bypass the authentication dialog this way? I tried with
> the parameters "user" and "password" as shown in the example above, but this
> dosn't work.
>
> Thnx
> Mike