How to make http connections with cookie authentication?

Dear all,

Could some provide me with an example or documentation on how to make http connections with cookie based authentication?
I need to consume a web service and do not want to pass the username and password on every call as a url parameter as that gets saved in the server logs…

Thank you,
Luis

Any thoughts on how I can do this?

Thanks,
Luis

This might help a bit:

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