Connect Notifications - Add user password into the email?

Question

When creating a training notification for a curriculum, do you have access to add the user password into the email? I know this is not a great idea for security purposes, but we have a few cases where we may need to do this. Fields are available to add using the brackets like {description}. So I was wondering if user password is available to use.

Answer 1

setRequestProperty essentially modifies the http-headers sent to the server.
You play with headers named Username and Password - these do not exist in the standard (see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html).
It is not too unlikely that the server you want to connect to uses the so-called "Basic" authentication scheme.
In that case (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt) you have to add a header looking like
setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==")
where the cryptic character sequence is just the base64 encoding of username:passowrd (in fact here it is "Aladdin:open sesame").
hope this helps
hagman
P.S.: I think this page shows some code that looks like what you are up to:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~bmc88/java/sbook/045.html
Edited by: hagman on Oct 9, 2008 8:26 AM