Re: How do I do HTTP Basic Auth?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:55:45PM +0000, Robin Wood wrote:
> I'm writing an nse script which needs to do basic auth, I've found quite a
> few scripts which call the brute force engine to do the authentication but
> I can't find any examples of doing it when you know the credentials. Can
> anyone give me an example?

In general it's something like this:
http.get(host, port, path, { auth = { username = "user", password = "pass" } })
The fourth argument is an option table that controls auth, as well as
other things.

David Fifield
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