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:pass@url.com

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](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5507234/use-basic-authentication-with-jquery-and-ajax) — Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩, Sep 05 '19 at 13:06

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '11 at 11:52

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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 '11 at 11:52

Paweł Nadolski

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@CMCDragonkai, read more here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.phishy-userpass-length – Paweł Nadolski Jan 18 '14 at 10:11

Andreas Panagiotidis · Answer 2 · 2013-03-04T15:11:32.440

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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:password@mysite.com/login --> does not work http://username:password@mysite.com/login/ --> works

firefox version 19.0

edited Mar 04 '13 at 15:11

answered Mar 04 '13 at 14:56

Andreas Panagiotidis

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Using in-url basic authentication in firefox

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