jforsythe wrote:I believe you will need a proxy to fetch the authenticated content then provide it to your chumby widget.
Which means you will need to host the proxy.
ah ok - hrm the reason I ask is that I have made a small widget that fetches a list of my current torrent downloads from my NAS box (which has a built in bT client). I can actually get it to work by passing the login details as part of the HTTP request something like:
xmlthingy.loadandsend("http://name:password@192.123.123.123/blah", result);
at least in the FlashDevelop evironment! I have no idea if this will work on an actual Chumby... I only started doing actionscript yesterday so I might be being quite naive/optimisitic.
Interestingly the NAS box (a qnap ts-101) has a webserver built in that can deal with php so I guess I could call a PHP script from the widget that in turn fetches the data from the protected area.....maybe.
Anyway, I am in the UK and am awaiting my Chumby through a 3rd party, looking forward to it!
Gav