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system/schemes/http/user: "user"    system/schemes/http/pass:  "pass" 
  ??

a: read/custom [site: "www.site.com" scheme: 'http user: "user" pass: 
"pass"] [post  "stuff"]

First didn't work, second gave invalid port spec error.

Umm, is it https?  Need rebcmd for that I think.  or add port: 80 
 maybe...

Sorry, I get it wrong everytime.  It's host:  not site:

If it matters, I am accessing an Outlook Web Access site, https scheme, 
with /Command.

Try  host: "..."  scheme: 'https ...    my mistake.

That worked, but now I'm getting a "Method not allowed" error from 
the server. I'm trying to enable junk email folders on an Exchange 
server and apparently the only way to do so is with a 100+ line VBScript 
that translates to a one-line REBOL script, but neither seem to work 
with this server.

try  [url: "www.site.com/prog.cgi" ...]  instead of host::

I tried host and path and that builds the url properly, but now I 
get a different server error that REBOL doesn't print all of so I 
can't see it. I can't seem to trap the error so I can print the whole 
thing.

Or maybe  [host: "www.site.com" url: "prog.cgi"]

Can you prepend the read with print to get the rest of the message?

>> probe decode-url http://www.junk.net/path/to/index.html
make object! [
    user: none
    pass: none
    host: "www.junk.net"
    port-id: none
    path: "path/to/"
    target: "index.html"
]

try with those...

It never gets to the read - it fails on open. When I tried TRACE/NET 
ON I saw the error: HTTP/1.1 440 Login Timeout
What's that?

https authentication.  No experience.  Sorry.

what type of authentication is it?

It's Basic authentication.

is it simple authentication ?

ok.

AFAICT

Authorization: Basic Q0NFU1xBZG1pbmlzdHJhdG9yOiFNVFVTQSYqKA==

Is that digest?

read/custom http://user:[password-:-somewere-:-com] [ post ... ] doesn't 
work?

because the password has some funny characters in it??

It does.

Ok, you can change the parse rule to allow the @ or whatever

Nonetheless, the error I got with the port spec is the same that 
the VBScript from Microsoft's web site gets.

Any way to increase the timeout?

You can try   port:  open  [spec]   insert port mold ['post stuff] 
 result: copy port  ???  the insert may need more....   {POST HTTP/1.1 
...  somesuch

yes

And what would that way be? :)

The command docs mention something about initiating ssl connections 
  with  port: open/direct  ssl://url:portnum  then a   set-modes 
port [secure: true]  to initiate authentication...

Brian,

    read/custom [scheme: 'https host: "server" path: "path/to/stuff" 
    user: "username" pass: "password"]

works. I don't need to recreate the port scheme, as it does that 
secure: true in its code. I get the same error with Microsoft's VBScript 
fix. I think it's something server-side. Thanks for the help with 
the syntax though - it's been a while.

There is a system/schemes/http/timeout field    probably the same 
for https

Yeah me too,  This is the kinda code that my brain treats as fire-and-forget. 
 Need to do it again...look it up again.  :)

Timeout is ignored. Must be a server misconfiguration (just a guess 
based on how messed up this server is).

There are threads in MS Tech net about 440 timeouts when Exchange 
enables Form Authentication.  All I've seen so far is Help Help messages, 
not fixes...


http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1110323&SiteID=17

Is one example.

According to MS's blogs, the only way to enable Exchange's server-side 
junk mail folders is to do so through Outlook Web Access on a per-user 
basis. The only way they suggest to do so for all users is to post:

cmd=options
junkemailstate=1
cmd=savejunkemailrule


to every user, logging in as a domain administrator. They provide 
a 100+ line VBScript to do this for a list of names in a file. When 
that failed, I figured that I could do the same in 1 or 2 lines of 
REBOL, and I was correct: I get the same exact failure the VBScript 
gets in 1 line of REBOL :(

Interesting. That site you linked to seems to narrow this down to 
forms-based authentication, which is enabled om my server. I'm going 
to try temporarily disabling it and see if that helps.

Drummm rollll

Worked!

Yippee...if you can disable FBA long term...

There may be a more permanent solution...I didn't read all of it.

http://www.chicagotech.net/exchange/owa440.htm

Brian;  Don't forget to post your REBOL solution to the place you 
got the VBScript.  :)

doh! I'd been hunting a bug in LIST-VIEW all day and it turns out 
that Ladislav's BUILD function does funny stuff to paths:

>> build [append/only [] []]
== [append/unset [] []]

The solution seems to be:

>> build [only 'append/only [] []]
== [append/only [] []]

Gotta watch those advanced libs. :-) The tricky stuff, like REBOL 
itself, often has a few things you have to trip over a couple times 
before setting a flag in your brain.

Thanks for the post on this. I haven't hit it, but I might someday.

If [APPEND/ONLY [] []] is what you were looking for to recieve with 
the help of BUILD, Henrik, BUILD/WITH [APPEND/ONLY [] []] [] works, 
too, and to me it seems to be a bit more intuitive.

But since BUILD [A/B [] []] gives [A/B [] []] as one would expect, 
I'd say this is a real bug in BUILD. You probably should let Ladislav 
know.