Basic credentials are comprised of a username and a password. You can also use limit the credentials to specific URLs via the optional URL property.
Password and form data is stored in plain text within a WebCopy project file.
Property | Description |
---|---|
URL | The URL of the page the password will be used for, relative to the website URL. This field supports regular expressions |
User name | Login user name |
Password | Login password |
If your expression includes any of the ^
, [
, .
, $
, {
, *
, (
, \
, +
, )
, |
, ?
, <
, >
characters and you want them to processed as plain text, you need to "escape" the character by preceding it with a backslash. For example, if your expression was application/epub+zip
this would need to be written as application/epub\+zip
otherwise the +
character would have a special meaning and no matches would be made. Similarly, if the expression was example.com
, this should be written as example\.com
, as .
means "any character" which could lead to unexpected matches.