Re: How do I do HTTP Basic Auth?

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 17 February 2013 22:58, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:

> 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

Brilliant, thanks.

Robin
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