Http Auth in a Firefox 3 bookmarklet

Question

I'm trying to create a bookmarklet for posting del.icio.us bookmarks to a separate account.

I tested it from the command line like:

wget -O - --no-check-certificate \
"https://seconduser:[email protected]/v1/posts/add?url=http://seet.dk&description=test"

This works great.

I then wanted to create a bookmarklet in my firefox. I googled and found bits and pieces and ended up with:

javascript:void(
    open('https://seconduser:[email protected]/v1/posts/add?url='
          +encodeURIComponent(location.href)
          +'&description='+encodeURIComponent(document.title),
          'delicious','toolbar=no,width=500,height=250'
        )
    );

But all that happens is that I get this from del.icio.us:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<result code="access denied" />
<!-- fe04.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Thu Aug  7 02:02:54 PDT 2008 -->  

If I then go to the address bar and press enter, it changes to:

<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>
<result code="done" />
<!-- fe02.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Thu Aug  7 02:07:45 PDT 2008 -->

Any ideas how to get it to work directly from the bookmarks?

Answer 1

Can you sniff the traffic to find what's actually being sent? Is it sending any auth data at all and it's incorrect or being presented in a form the server doesn't like, or is it never being sent by firefox at all?

Answer 2

@travis Looks very nice! I will sure take a look into it. I can think of several places I can use that

I never got round to sniff the traffic but found out that a php site on my own server with http-auth worked fine, so i figured it was something with delicious. I then created a php page that does a wget of the delicious api and everything works fine :)