Weird behaivour with WebParser HTTP Authentication

Very strange behaivour, I'm posting here since I couldn't find anything for my Error Code and not understanding why it isn't working

To cut a long story short, I'm making a skin for VLC where you don't need the libcad plugin!
I have the following measureFor some reason, this is not working, when I run the skin, I get

• Fetching: http://:1234@localhost:8080/requests/status.xml (VLCMeter\VLCMeter.ini - [VLCRoot])
  (the link actually works when I curl it in cmd)

and then the error

• (Fetch error) The parameter is incorrect. (ErrorCode=87) (VLCMeter\VLCMeter.ini - [VLCRoot])

I have genuinley looked at everything I wrote, up and down, left and right, diagonally, through my monitor (I'm a ghost and I can phase throught it) and it dosen't make sense.
I tried to fix this in a bit of a convoluted way, I looked at the packets in the Developer Tools menu, looked at the headers and decided to move the Auth part from the URL to the Headers stolen from thereThis works with the only caveat that I need to base64 that field, which should not be hard, but I don't know if I would want to use Lua.
Is there a way to do HTTP Auth in Rainmeter on local ips without a .TDL ending or did I miss something?

Actually, this entire post was a ruse, should I use status.xml or status.json to parse VLC's data? 🤔

Statistics: Posted by Jeff — Yesterday, 8:00 pm — Replies 3 — Views 110

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