MMHttp.getText() with basic authentication

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November 19, 2011
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Hi All,

I am creating a Dreamweaver Extension that pulls data from a website. I use MMHttp.getText() to retrieve a URL and the website uses basic authentication.

How do I specify username and password for MMHttp.getText() method?

I have tried using https://username:password@www.... type URL but still does not work.

Thank you.

Regards,

Nugroho

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Danilo Celic

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The MMHttp object is very basic, if changing the URL didn't work (assuming it does work as expected when you try that same URL in a browser), then that type of authenticaion is likely not supported. Does it work with the HTTP (as in not HTTPS)? I believe that HTTPS support was added a couple of versions ago, so it's possible there are some limitations along that line.

Danilo Celic

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Anonymous

I have tried the URL (that contains username and passowrd) in a browser and it works but it does not work using MMHttp.

Regarding HTTPS support, I tested using MMHttp to non-authenticated HTTPS website and its works.

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ketakilimaye

Participant

Which version of Dreamweaver are you working on, and which platform? I corresponded with a Dreamweaver engineer and they stated that it should be able to connect with basic authentication turned on for Windows versions of Dreamweaver, but probably not work at all on Mac. I set up my IIS7 on Windows 7 and set a folder on my localhost that was set to basic authentication and when I tried it the username and password dialog would appear. This would happen only the first time you access the authenticated URL in a Dreamweaver session; that is, once you close and restart Dreamweaver, and tried the URL again, the prompt would appear again. I tried this with and without the username and password in the URL and it always popped up a prompt dialog.

One suggestion might be to try conntecting to the authenticated page via an XHR object within a mm:browsercontrol:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/extend/WS3825E1AD-223E-47e9-B86B-ECFBCC45BE0C.html

Search the Dreamweaver application configuration for examples of using the mm:browsercontrol, I beleive that the Spry Dataset Wizard uses that control.

Danilo Celic

Hello Danilo,

I want to use mm:browsercontrol in Dreamweaver CC 2015 to call a remote web service using XHR/XMLHTTPRequest object. However, I do not know how to achieve this exactly. I browsed the Adobe help for mm:browsercontrol at : Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 & CS5.5 * <mm:browsercontrol> but could not find any clue of how to actually achieve this. Can you share some working sample example or guide me to any forums/sites that can help me?

Thanks a lot in advance.

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