Hi,
Why, when password protection on the VLC http interface was introduced, was a blank username chosen? This makes it almost impossible to access status.xml from a lot of script code. If an arbitrary username had been chosen (e.g. vlc) or the username was just plain ignored, it would cause a lot less code to choke AND would have allowed the use of a URL embedded username and password to allow access e.g.:
http://vlc:mypassword@localhost:8080/re ... status.xml
rfc1738 does not allow:
http://:mypassword@localhost:8080/requests/status.xml
This is very frustrating and potentially means I will have to either hack javascript framework I am using or change frameworks.
Stephen Parry