Using in-url basic authentication in firefox

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I'm using launching firefox from the command line in a script to get snapshots of pages. These pages have basic http authentication. When using:

firefox http://user:[email protected]

Either a dialog appears, or authentication doesn't work at all.

Is there any option to make firefox open the page without showing the dialog?

Possible duplicate of Use basic authentication with jQuery and Ajax — Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩
– Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩, Commented Sep 5, 2019 at 13:06

Paweł Nadolski · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-31 11:52:38Z

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Open about:config page in firefox. Create a new Integer key (right-click->New->Integer): network.http.phishy-userpass-length with value 255.

answered Mar 31, 2011 at 11:52

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Paweł Nadolski Over a year ago

@CMCDragonkai, read more here: kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.phishy-userpass-length

Andreas Panagiotidis · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-04 15:11:32Z

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For me it makes all the difference of the world adding the slash at the end of the context root. Without the slash, the popup opens. With the slash it logs in as expected.

http://username:[email protected]/login --> does not work http://username:[email protected]/login/ --> works

firefox version 19.0

edited Mar 4, 2013 at 15:11

answered Mar 4, 2013 at 14:56

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