User authentication support for password-protected sites is also available by
www4mail
. To access such Web site/pages
conforming to the pattern
`protocol://username:password@site/directory
'
you need to know (and then pass on) the correct USERNAME and PASSWORD.
Note the @-sign! In these cases send an e-mail
To: www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it Subject: (... whatever you like) and write in the body of the e-mail: http://username:password@site/path or ftp://username:password@site/path
where site/path is the machine,domain,directory,file you want to
retrieve and the @-sign is used to separate the string
`username:password
' from the site/path.
If the username or password contains an @-sign, please prefix
it with a back slash, example: "username:pass\@
word@site/path".
Once you have received the www4mail
reply, you will be able to navigate
to such protected pages without further authentication. www4mail
will
do it automatically for you.
Of course, you can get the same information in the body of a e-mail message and
as a plain text file, by adding the GET or SEND options, or as an HTML source
adding GET SOURCE, SOURCE or XSOURCE options.
BUT PLEASE NOTE passwords passed this way, like everything else under
e-mail, are not necessarily private, because:
www4mail
logs in all transactions locally.
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