Document how to use stage file proxy with http Basic auth

Was just about to request that same thing . +1 please

Created small patch against current head
which currently is the same as 1.0 so it can be applied on top of that.

Please review...

This works without a patch:

$conf['stage_file_proxy_origin'] = 'http://user:password@example.com'; // no trailing slash

See also http://www.undpaul.de/blog/2011/12/21/stage-file-proxy-no-more-big-file-...

Please reopen this issue if that doesn't help you.

could someone help verify that #4 actually does not work.
I tested on my ubuntu 12.04 setup multiple times and it does NOT work without my patch.

My sense is that #4 should work on most servers. When you say you tested it on "12.04" do you mean Apache was doing Basic Auth or that 12.04 was the "client" making requests to some other server?

well, our devs all work on ubuntu 12.04 either directly or the mac guys with a 12.04 vm
server has basic authentication

for my patch i first added a watchdog entry to see if auth works, and with method in #4 it gives me return code 401.

tested multiple times on different machines, but everytime ubuntu 12.04 as clients.

That's convincing enough for me :) Thanks for the details derEremit.

#4 worked just fine for me on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 12.10.

No need for a patch as far as I can see =)

We could document it.

It's worth saying that special characters need urlencoding with this syntax, so if your username/password is:

username: myusername
password: letme&in

then your uri would be:

$conf['stage_file_proxy_origin'] = 'http://myusername:letme%26in@example.com';

Nice, great tip!

+++ b/INSTALL.txtundefined
@@ -7,7 +7,13 @@ REQUIRED:
+The origin website. If the site is using HTTP Basic Authentication the (browser

small bracket-positioning typo here I think, probably was intended to be:

+++ b/INSTALL.txtundefined
@@ -7,7 +7,13 @@ REQUIRED:
+The origin website. If the site is using HTTP Basic Authentication (the browser

Cool cool cool. I fixed that and changed the spacing around a little. The attached patch is committed.

http://drupalcode.org/project/stage_file_proxy.git/commit/e913b19

Thanks, jamsilver!

Awesome =)!