It sucks a little that these links don't work any more:
I believe you can also place username and password in the header of your requests and authenticate each time, but I cannot find the thread on that at the moment... Oh, wait, this is it:
Would you mind fixing this, if possible? It would help a lot (probably)(I hope), since I am having the same issue and do not want to open a new thread.
Thank you so much
Marc