Hi Christian Thanks for your hint, - this is exactly what I was looking for!

Regards,Mike

From: Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com To: Mike Cobo mikecobo@yahoo.com Cc: "basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de" basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [basex-talk] User and Password in REST URL

Hi Mike,

If you use basic authentication (which is the default), you can specify your credentials in the URL:

http://tester:pwd@mydomain.com:8984/rest?run=scripts/myscript.xq

Hope this helps, Christian

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Mike Cobo mikecobo@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi all

When invokling an XQuery via REST, eg. http://mydomain.com:8984/rest?run=scripts/myscript.xq I'm prompted to type in the user and password for authentication. This is ok when a script needs user authentication to connect to a database. But when the script only uses the XQuery processor to output a (generated) HTML page it would be easier if the user authentication could by included in the URL, eg

http://mydomain.com:8984/rest?run=scripts/myscript.xq&user=tester&pa...

Is there a way to bypass the authentication dialog this way? I tried with the parameters "user" and "password" as shown in the example above, but this dosn't work.

Thnx Mike