Howto access htpasswd proteced sites from Arduino

Projects Networking, Protocols, and Devices
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Hello,

I'd like to send a request to a htaccess protected site which requires a username and password from an arduino Client. My question is: would that be possible with an ethernet-arduino? I assume it would not be as simple as requesting http://user:password@192.168.178.1 But how would that be achieved?

Thanks for you help
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well, reading around how the http protocoll is working I got around to this simple solution:

...
client.println("GET /search?q=arduino HTTP/1.0");
client.println("Authorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNz");
client.println();
..

where dXNlcjpwYXNz has to be the base64 encoded string of user:pass
Since I don't have an ethernet board here: does anyone has experiences with that? Can I contiue the project in this direction and buy an ethernet board?

thx

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Technically, I think you are not supposed to provide AUTH until you get asked for it.