[MPlayer-dev-eng] HTTP basic authentication support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 07:14:48PM -0700, Bertrand Baudet wrote:
> Comment was:
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> hmm, are you sure it's a good idea to read user and pass from mplayer's stdin? 
> I think it should rather only give the error message and then go to next 
> file/exit. A nice idea would be a -user xxx -pass yyy switch, so a global 
> user/pass for all following urls can be specified.
> e.g: mplayer -user blah -pass blub http://xxx/1.mpg http://xxx/2.mpg
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> 
> Yes, I kindda agree with that! It's not a really nice integration
> with the GUI neither.
> But it would be also nice to have an interaction with the user 
> so it can specify a username/password for a protection space.
> I should cache(in memory) the username/password for each 
> realm(protection space), so when the user is prompt once for 
> user/pass for a protection space, it will never be prompted again.
> The cache will not be persistant.
> 
> Any suggestion, anybody?
> 
> 
> Anyway, I will add the -user -pass switches.

Umm, doesn't http://user:pass@server/path make a LOT more sense?

Rich