From: "Michael Robbins" <michael.robbins@us.cibc.com>
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Subject: Re: URLREAD and password protected url...
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:05:58 -0400
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>> 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/


Thanks for the help. I did try that. My login has a "/" in it (ie.
abc/def), I don't know if that's the problem:


 <http://abc/def>:pwd@www.company.com/private/