[mythtv-users] CVS wget gzip problem

David Hampton hampton at employees.org
Tue May 11 20:41:36 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:46, Nathan Elliott wrote:
> Now that's a messy hack, but I like how you think!  =>
> 
> I tried fooling around with this idea , but can't get past the 401 error
> that is sent after the first attempt.  I'm not sure I really understand how
> this authentication process with a 401 error works exactly.  I keep ending
> up with a file that contains:
> 
> <HTML><HEAD<TITLE>401 Unauthorized</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>401
> Unauthorized</H1></BODY></HTML>

Add "username:password@" to the url just before the hostname.  I.E.
http://nelliot:password@datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlist....

David




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