Big Brother Manual -- Using passwords: -realm, -user and -password

Using passwords: -realm, -user and -password

Using passwords: `-realm`, `-user` and `-password`

Some servers have private areas, where a user name and a password have to be supplied in order to download documents. Such areas are called realms. Big Brother is able to deal with them, provided that you tell it which documents require which user name & password combination. This is done as follows:

-realm regexp -user string -password string

The realm is described by a regular expression. As usual, a regular expression describes a set of addresses. That is, a document is considered as part of the realm if its address matches the regular expression. The user name and password are just strings. Here is an example:

-realm "^http://localhost/~francois/private/" -user francois -password bikini

You can use these three options more than once, to define several password-protected realms with different user names or passwords.

François Pottier, May 5, 2004

Using passwords: -realm, -user and -password