HTML - Log On & Password 1

[Rocket8888]

Hello,

I am trying to find any documentation and/or help with a project I am currently working on. I am trying to set up a web page to automatically insert a generic low security user id & password when the user visits the page, simply to view reports. I was told to use the following after the actual url for the web page:

/:signonassword

But this is not working out for me. I tried other variations, but no luck.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Wullie]

Hi,

You used to be able to use [ignore]usernameassword@domain.com[/ignore] but due to serious security implications of this, it has been disabled in Internet Explorer.

Hope this helps

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[Rocket8888]

Even if using an intranet?

Thanks!

 

[phpgramma]

it's been disabled client-side, so inErnet or intrAnet are inconsequential.

why don't you use POST variables? You can have the link to the page submit the form and therefore pass POSTs to the new page, no matter what domain you're going to/from. This is more secure anyway because the users will never see the usern/password and you then have the option of encrypting it, https, etc.

 

[Rocket8888]

Hmmm...supposedly from what I was told. When setting the page up, if I include in the url the logon and password, within the url, that it would go to the web page in question and insert the logon/password to access the web site.

 

[philote]

If the login page uses a simple form, you may be able to do this:
Go to the login page and view the html for it. Check the action part of the form, this is where the username/password are submitted. Then look at the input fields for entering the username and password and note their names. Then try setting your link to:

<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://the.url.of/the/form/action.html?signon=someuser&password=somepass>[/URL]

Where 'signon' is the name of the username input and 'password' is the name of the password input from the login form.