Http request - username and password

Zeropoint0 · Post by **Zeropoint0** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:55 pm

Please Tyme. Can you help me know how to get HttpRequest from this page. http://www.warforum.cz/viewforum.php?f=137 on this page goes over the USERNAME and PASSWORD. How can I enter Name and password and get HttpRequest from this http://www.warforum.cz/viewforum.php?f=137. We make several days.

Thank you very much

Rain · Post by **Rain** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:59 pm

What about this?

For basic authentication where a username and password is required by the server before the request will complete put the username and password in the URL using the following format:
http://username:[email protected] ... 37&start=0

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:49 pm

That page doesn't use basic authentication. It uses a form post. You would need to set up the POST parms to mimic the form post.

Zeropoint0 · Post by **Zeropoint0** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:14 pm

Let>PostData=Username=123456789&Password=123456789

HTTPRequest>http://www.warforum.cz/login.php,,POST,PostData,Page

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Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:39 am

That looks right but is on going to retrieve the login page. The thing is this site, and most sites which require a login, probably uses a browser session state and probably also redirects to the page you want after login. None of that is going to happen with a single HTTP request.

In short you are going to have to automate this with WebRecorder instead.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:25 pm

Yes, use one of the Extract functions. Specify the containing element - which could be BODY for the whole page, and then write the data to file using WriteLn.

abby741 · Post by **abby741** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:41 pm

None of that is going to happen with a single HTTP request.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:59 pm

abby741 wrote:None of that is going to happen with a single HTTP request.

Not sure if this is a question or you are making a point. Don't think the OP necessarily said it had to happen with one HTTP request. Looks to me like HTTP requests won't cut it anyway and instead a browser session may need to automated.