Browsing to a CUPS web page with authentication pre-supplied

[Michael Sweet]

Opher Shachar wrote:
> Hi all,
> We want to place a link to arbitrary CUPS web pages in our application's UI. Some of these pages require authentication.
> Can authentication information be supplied in the url or http headers?

Yes - for URLs use:

     http://user:pass@hostname/...

If you have control over HTTP headers, the Authorization field
contains the authentication information, however you generally can't
just set them, you need to respond to the challenge's WWW-Authenticate
header...

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