Firefox/Mozilla command line auth

Hi all. I'm trying to get Firefox to open a URL from the command
line which requires a login to a htaccess zone.

With lynx, you'd use:

lynx -auth=usernameassword https://somesite.com/securedir/

With earlier Mozilla, you could get away with:

mozilla -remote "openurl(https://user(E-Mail Removed)/securedir/)"

Is there any way to pass the username and password to Firefox without
a dialog box appearing?

(This is for use in a screenshot capture script using a virtual X
server so it can't be interacted with by a user once Firefox starts.)

Thanks.

On 2005-04-07, Synic <flavp+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> With earlier Mozilla, you could get away with:
> mozilla -remote "openurl(https://user(E-Mail Removed)/securedir/)"
>
> Is there any way to pass the username and password to Firefox without
> a dialog box appearing?

It works for me just passing the URL without the '-remote' part.
Davide

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Davide Bianchi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On 2005-04-07, Synic <flavp+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> With earlier Mozilla, you could get away with:
>> mozilla -remote "openurl(https://user(E-Mail Removed)/securedir/)"
>>
>> Is there any way to pass the username and password to Firefox without
>> a dialog box appearing?
>
> It works for me just passing the URL without the '-remote' part.

Using -remote is necessary as the Mozilla team have had an unresolved
bug relating to -geometry, -width and -height command-line arguments
since 2000 or so (and preloading a Javascript page which sets them is
the only work-around).