Need help with TCP OPEN with UserID and Password

[Michael Rich]

Need help with TCP OPEN with UserID and Password.

The server evidently does not like the way I am handling the user id and password – see code below:

Site$ = “www.MySite.com”
File$ = http://UserID[email protected]/SECURE/index.html
TCP OPEN "http" AT Site$ AS #1 TIMEOUT 60000
TCP PRINT #1, "GET " & File$ & " HTTP/1.0"
TCP PRINT #1, "Referer: http://www.MySite.com/"
TCP PRINT #1, "User-Agent: User ID Test"
TCP PRINT #1, ""
…

When I execute the code above, I get the message below:

Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested. Either you supplied the wrong
credentials (e.g., bad password), or your
browser doesn’t understand how to supply
the credentials required.

I know the user id and password are correct - I'm testing on my own site.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you,
Michael Rich

[Michael Rich]

There should be a colon between the 'UserID' and the 'password' in the File$ string - not the smile icon.

Sorry about that.

Michael Rich

[Knuth Konrad]

To avoid the smiley, you need to tick the checkbox "Disable smilies in text" when composing the message.

Even better, place your code in [ code] [ /code] tags (without the blank before code and /code)

As for your problem, see Basic Access Authentification for how to send the credentials.

Basically you need to encode the <user>:<password> part of the URL with BASE64 and send it along as a header line:

 Site$ = “www.MySite.com”
File$ = "http://www.MySite.com/SECURE/index.html"
TCP OPEN "http" AT Site$ AS #1 TIMEOUT 60000
TCP PRINT #1, "GET " & File$ & " HTTP/1.0"
TCP PRINT #1, "Authorization: Basic <BASE64 encoded <user>:<password>>"

Knuth

[Roger Garstang]

Function MimeEncode (ByVal sFileData As String) As String ' Encode data using Base64 encoding.
    Local  lBlock   As Long
    Local  lcBlocks As Long
    Local  lByte1   As Long
    Local  lByte2   As Long
    Local  pInput   As Byte Ptr
    Local  pOutput  As Byte Ptr
    Local  pTable   As Byte Ptr
    Static sBase64  As String
    Local  sResult  As String
    Local  Pad      As String
 
    If Len(sBase64)= 0 Then sBase64= "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"
 
    ' Calculate padding for Base64 stream
    Pad = String$(2 - (Len(sFileData) - 1) Mod 3, "=")
 
    ' Round up the length of the input data to a multiple of three
    lcBlocks = (Len(sFileData) + 2) \ 3
    If lcBlocks * 3 > Len(sFileData) Then
        sFileData = LSet$(sFileData, lcBlocks * 3 Using $Nul)
    End If
 
    ' Allocate the space for the output string
    sResult = Space$(lcBlocks * 4)
 
    ' Set up pointers so we can treat the data as byte streams
    pInput  = StrPtr(sFileData)
    pOutput = StrPtr(sResult)
    pTable  = StrPtr(sBase64)
 
    ' Loop through our entire input buffer
    For lBlock = 1 To lcBlocks
        ' Use the Base64 table to encode the output string
        lByte1 = @pInput
        Incr pInput
        lByte2 = @pInput
        @pOutput = @pTable[lByte1 \ 4]
        Incr pOutput
        @pOutput = @pTable[(lByte1 And 3) * 16 + lByte2 \ 16]
        Incr pOutput
        Incr pInput
        lByte1 = @pInput
        Incr pInput
        @pOutput = @pTable[(lByte2 And 15) * 4 + lByte1 \ 64]
        Incr pOutput
        @pOutput = @pTable[lByte1 And 63]
        Incr pOutput
    Next
 
    ' Merge in the padding bytes
    RSet Abs sResult = Pad
    Function = sResult
End Function

[Michael Mattias]

That's such a nicely written function, with a clean call interface.

Why not post it in the Source Code Forum with a meaningful (i.e, "searchable") title, like "MIME Encode a String Base 64?"

When I look for code, I look in Source Code Forum by subject. At least that is where and how I look first.

[Paul Franks]

You might want to use one of the many Windows APIs or COM objects available to do this much more easily, with full support for the https protocol. Here's one example:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showpost.php?p=244629&postcount=11

[Roger Garstang]

Actually, I think I did post this in the Source Code forum at one time...might have been in another thread that does it with Assembly. I just posted it here for those that search for titles like this or text like HTTP protocols as I would be searching for...and of course for the poster to use since I use it for this very purpose as I don't think I converted the code to do multiline in this, so this use is the main purpose.

[Michael Mattias]

>Actually, I think I did post this in the Source Code forum

Search, Forum=Source code, "subject only," all dates:
"mime" ==> 3 posts not including above
"encode" ==> 1 post not above

Maybe you could post above as a "reply" to one of these so all like code is together?