I've no idea about this stuff but you can try :)

lxmlObj.SetRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic “ + encoding")

* or
lxmlObj.Open( "POST", lcURL, .F., id, password) )

>This is a bit new to me, but this is part of what they said:
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>"I don’t think you actually send the userid and password. You need to set up “HTTP Basic Authentication”. It’s sent as another request property; like the Content-Type."
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>Then this:
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>"Here is sample Java code that I’ve used to do this:"
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>

>String authString = id + “:” + password;
>String encoding = Base64.encode(authString.getBytes());
>connection.setRequestProperty(“Authorization”, “Basic “ + encoding)
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