Re: 401 error

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 07/20/2015 01:29 PM, Sam Bull wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, at 06:35 PM, Dan Winship wrote:
> > OK, well, it looks like the problem is that libsoup isn't sending the
> > username+password on the initial request (which is correct, since it
> > doesn't know that the server wants to use Basic auth), and the server is
> > returning 500 rather than 401. Which it really shouldn't do, but...
>
> That bug has now been fixed, so it returns a 401 error as expected. Here's the output now: 
> http://pastebin.com/NUR8qtKS

This still seems to be a server bug; it's returning a 401 error, but not
including a WWW-Authenticate header, so libsoup doesn't know what kind
of authentication the server wants it to use.


On 07/19/2015 12:48 PM, Sam Bull wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 13:35 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> >   let auth_mgr = httpSession.get_feature(Soup.TYPE_AUTH_MANAGER);
> >   let auth = Soup.Auth.new(Soup.TYPE_AUTH_BASIC, msg, "Basic
realm=dummy");

> I just get errors like this:
>
>         (gnome-shell:4628): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Error: Expected
>         type GType for Argument 'type' but got type 'undefined'
>
> It seems that neither Soup.TYPE_AUTH_MANAGER or Soup.TYPE_AUTH_BASIC are
> defined.

Ah, ok, it looks like GObject.type_from_name('SoupAuthManager') and
GObject.type_from_name('SoupAuthBasic') might work


-- Dan