From: Jeremie <invalid@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: URLREAD and password protected url...
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:56:37 -0400
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Michael Robbins wrote:
> I want to download data from a URL but it prompts for a username
> and
> password.


if your url is <http://www.company.com/private/>,
your login 'login' and your password 'password', did you try to use
the URL
 <http://login>:password@www.company.com/private/


Jeremie