Re: Simple readXML which requires authentication

Hi,

no you can't.

I am not sure if you have access to the underlying WebRequest in a DataSet - but you could first read the xml using HttpWebRequest (which supports supplying credentials) and then pass the XML to the DataSet....

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Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
http://www.leastprivilege.com

Hi, I have a web application which gets data from clients via XML. Up
to now I used the DataSet.readXML("http://xmlURL.xml";) to get and
parse xml content into my database.

Now one of my clients has placed his XML on a server that requires
authentication and has provided the username and password.

I tried the following: http://<username>:<password>@ xmlURL.xml
It works if I enter the above in Firefox for example
It doesn't work though in neither of those:
IE 6 and programmatically via the application (which uses
DataSet.readXML ("http://<username>:<password>@ xmlURL.xml")).

In IE I get a file not found error, And in the application run I get a
401 unauthorized error.

My questions are:

Can I use the simple (I suppose insecure way)
http://<username>:<password>@... by maybe changing the application
configuration?

What other options do I have?

Thanks in advance, Albert



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