IE problem

[Ajb2528]

Can anyone help me with this?

A user of mine has, until recently, been logging into their website with the following:-

http://id:password@www.xxx-yyyyyy.zzzz

This "bypassed" the 'pop-up' login screen and allowed them (presumably) to jesy enter a password.

I know that IE's security has been tightened-up recently,
but is there any way of making this work??

Regards,

Alan

 

[smah]

Not with IE

 

[Ajb2528]

With any other browser?

 

[smah]

I believe that some other browsers will still allow it, but I haven't tested which ones.


And for what it's worth, there is a valid reason not to do this.

 

[bcastner]

Fir IE you need to make a simple registry change:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=834489?scid=kb;en-us;290301

 

[smah]

Something's buggered upl with bcastner's link. Try this

 

[bcastner]

Thanks smah.

 

[smah]

No problem, glad to see you're back.

 

[Ajb2528]

All,

Thanks for the replies. I have tried the registry change but it does not appear to work. I am running Win XP Pro (SP2). Does this make any difference?

Regards,

Alan

 

[bcastner]

Open notepad and copy/paste the below. Save as fix_ie.reg

********* start copy/paste below this line
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE]
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000001
"explorer.exe"=dword:00000001

********* end copy/paste above this line

Doulbe-click the ie_fix.reg file to merge with your registry and reboot.

 

[Ajb2528]

bcastner,

I Have tried this bit IE still prompts for the password...

Regards,

Alan

 

[bcastner]

Make sure in if_fix.reg that this appears on one line:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE]

 

[Ajb2528]

bcastner,

Yes it appears on one line.

Regards,

Alan