Colin Paul Adams wrote:
"Elliotte" == Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Elliotte> Which, if any, processors support HTTP authentication in
    Elliotte> the URLs they retrieve? Both for the initial document
    Elliotte> and documents retrieved by the document() function?

    Elliotte> For my current needs I only need to retrieve
    Elliotte> authenticated documents from one site, so a single
    Elliotte> command line option would be sufficient. However longer
    Elliotte> term I'd like to be able to retrieve documents from
    Elliotte> multiple sites with different usernames and
    Elliotte> passwords. Thus either an extended document function or
    Elliotte> support for https://user:pass@host/ style URLs would be
    Elliotte> required.

How are you suggesting these should work?

The simplest approach is merely to recognize URLs in the form 
https://user:pass@host/



This could be implemented in a current processor without any spec changes.



The alternative would be a new document function (initially in an 
extension namespace until XSLT 2.1) with two extra arguments. E.g.



document($uri-sequence as item()*, $base-node as node()) as node()*, 
$username as string, $password as string)



Details are probably a little off, but that's the idea.




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