Generate URLs for sites behind logins

[dabukalam]

For websites behind logins, it would be nice if you could generate and send a logged in cookie along with the request, to properly render that URL.

Actually sending the cookie in the HTTP header looks like it would be straightforward - generating the cookie will probably be more hassle and be different depending on the sites. Most are probably OAuth though.

[nuxeh]

Interesting idea. Yes, reqwest's cookie store is already used, cookies are a pretty basic requirement for url-bot-rs to do its thing... many sites request setting a cookie and a redirect, and don't give anything useful otherwise, for example.

I'm not sure what you mean by "generate", surely such a cookie has to be generated server side?

Also, I suspect that this can't be generalised, even with OAuth (which i know very little about), guessing it'll still have a site-specific OAuth endpoint/url, or otherwise, login form.

I do think it would be quite feasible to make a plugin for any required services, which logs in using the site's login form url each time a title request is made for a matching domain, prior to then making the actual request. I imagine cookies may be handled automatically in this case, since url-bot-rs uses a persistent reqwest client for all requests. Some user/password login info could be stored in the config to do this. Also, doing this on a per-request basis, would eliminate stateful management of any cookies and their expiry.