HTTP authentication in vlc

[Chinx7]

Hello,

I've been working on this problem for at least 10 hours now and I am slowly losing my sanity. I hope this won't count as abuse if I present this problem here.

I'm trying to connect to the web-interface of vlc, the other interfaces don't work because they don't give me the current playing status of vlc (if the video is playing or paused).

I start the vlc client with: "vlc.exe" --extraintf http --http-password test", so when I open "localhost:8080" I get a popup from chrome asking for a username and a password.

I have to set a password and can't set a username, so I have to input "test" as a password and leave the username field empty.

I know I can set the username and password with "username:password@url".

So far so easy, but if I try to access the site in autoit with:

Inetget ("http://:test@127.0.2.1:8080/requests/status.xml", "status.xml")

I get an error "13" (couldn't find anything useful about this error) and won't get the file.

I tried it with InetRead, but get the same error, I guess it's because of the wrong authentication.

The download needs to be as fast as possible, because it get's called multiple times per second, so unless there is no other way I would like to not use IE.

I hope I didn't miss anything and thank you in advance for your help.