I don't have VLC installed and I don't quite get why an username and a password would be needed in this case, but maybe the username in your original attempt must not be blank, from Rainmeter's point of view (it wouldn't be the first case, as it doesn't like empty regex captures either)? ![:???:]( "Confused")
As for base64 encoding and decoding, Javascript has the btoa() and atob() functions to do it and you can fetch stuff from an address there too, via XMLHttpRequest() or fetch(), but of course you're not using WebView to be able to use these. For Lua, this might be a reasonable solution:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/BaseSixtyFour
Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to your last question, since I didn't work with HTTP Auth in WebParser yet, given that I didn't need it for any email skin.![:(]( "Sad")
As for base64 encoding and decoding, Javascript has the btoa() and atob() functions to do it and you can fetch stuff from an address there too, via XMLHttpRequest() or fetch(), but of course you're not using WebView to be able to use these. For Lua, this might be a reasonable solution:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/BaseSixtyFour
Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to your last question, since I didn't work with HTTP Auth in WebParser yet, given that I didn't need it for any email skin.
Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — 18 minutes ago