HTTP GET with authentication does not work in Adobe Indesign javascript

Report · Dec 06, 2011

Hi,

Below is that code that am trying to run in Indesign script. The URL http://localhost:4502/content/geometrixx/en/company/news/articles.html directly works in a browser, it gives back the content. But when I try running the below in Indesign, it gives the following result. It does not really give the conent back.

Indesign script code:

reply = "";

conn = new Socket;

// access Adobe’s home page

if (conn.open ("localhost:4502")) {

var request = "GET /content/geometrixx/en/company/news/articles.html HTTP/1.0\n\n" +

"Authorization: Basic admin:admin\n";

conn.write (request); // and read the server’s reply

reply = conn.read(999999);

alert(reply);

conn.close();

}

Output in Indesign:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Connection: Close

Server: Day-Servlet-Engine/4.1.12

Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8

Content-Length: 387

Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:05:26 GMT

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">

<title>404 Not Found</title>

</head><body>

<h1>Not Found</h1>

<p>The requested URL /content/geometrixx/en/company/news/articles.html was not found on this server.</p>

<hr>

<address>ApacheSling/2.2 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_29; Mac OS X 10.7.2 x86_64)</address>

</body></html>

Report · Dec 07, 2011

Hi,

Your code has some problems.

1. HTTP Request closed 1st line. Server wait and get data while "\n\n" come.

2. Authorization user name and password string must be encode base64.

You can read as reference :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

here is a sample request:

var request = "GET /autharea/index.html HTTP/1.1\n"

+ "Host: (serverName)\n"

+ "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n"

+ "Authorization: Basic "+ encodedData +"\n\n";

and working code with base64 function

var authStr = "username:password";

var encodedData = base64(authStr );

var reply = "";

var conn = new Socket;

var request = "GET /autharea/index.html HTTP/1.1\n"

+ "Host: (serverName)\n"

+ "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n"

+ "Authorization: Basic "+ encodedData +"\n\n";

if (conn.open ("130.1.6.46:80","UTF-8")) {

conn.write (request);

reply = conn.read(999999);

conn.close();

alert(reply);

}

function base64(binaryString) {

var keyStr = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=";

var encoded = "";

var c1, c2, c3;

var e1, e2, e3, e4;

var i = 0;

while(i < binaryString.length) {

c1 = binaryString.charCodeAt(i++);

c2 = binaryString.charCodeAt(i++);

c3 = binaryString.charCodeAt(i++);

e1 = c1 >> 2;

e2 = ((c1 & 3) << 4) | (c2 >> 4);

e3 = ((c2 & 15) << 2) | (c3 >> 6);

e4 = c3 & 63;

if (isNaN(c2)) {

e3 = e4 = 64;

} else if (isNaN(c3)) {

e4 = 64;

}

encoded = encoded + keyStr.charAt(e1) + keyStr.charAt(e2) +

keyStr.charAt(e3) + keyStr.charAt(e4);

}

return encoded;

}

Ten

Report · Dec 07, 2011

yes, I have figured it out, thank you so much for the help.

HTTP GET with authentication does not work in Adobe Indesign javascript

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