mojomatt Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Hi, I'm trying to download a file from a website that uses basic authentication. My password has a pound sign/hash symbol (#) in it and that is causing the inetget to fail. I've tried encoding it as %23 but that doesn't work either. Unfortunately the website I'm attempting to reach is internal to my workplace so it may be difficult to reproduce but regardless here's basically the code that isn't working.. Local $hDownload = InetGet("http://Username:Password#@myinternalwebsite.com", @TempDir & "\update.dat") My network traces don't show any traffic going to myinternalwebsite.com unless I remove the # symbol. If I manually use a browser and navigate to the site and enter my credentials in the popup and capture the network traffic, it shows the actual # sign in the Credentials section of the packet and this is the behavior I'm trying to emulate with InetGet. Any ideas how I can pass the # symbol in my password using InetGet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianni Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 maybe you could try this.... Local $hDownload = InetGet("http://Username:Password" & Chr(35) & "@myinternalwebsite.com", @TempDir & "\update.dat") Chimp small minds discuss people average minds discuss events great minds discuss ideas.... and use AutoIt.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomatt Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Good thought Chimp but unfortunately it didn't work. Same behavior as if the actual # sign was used. I got around this for now by using WinHTTP but would be nice to get InetGet working. Maybe it's just not possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewManNH Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Try to replace the hash with %23. If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomatt Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 I've already tried %23 with no success. Thanks for the thought though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BrewManNH Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Change the password to something that doesn't use "#", would be the simplest route to take. If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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