Include username & Pass in URL...

[rhnewfie]

Say you went to a site all the time and didnt want to have to type in your username and password all the time. Could you actually include it in the URL somehow so that it would auto-login or at lease populate the text boxes?

I realize that this is a wierd question...

Thanks!

Oh... it could be for any site... this one for instance

 

[cLFlaVA]

no.

why don't you enable auto-completion and form field memory in your browser?



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[rhnewfie]

That's what I was thinking too... but a client asked if I could do it so i said that I would find out. I think that they are afraid that someone else may use the PC and get into sites that they dont want to in... but they want to go to themselves :-D

 

[tsdragon]

There used to be a way to do it, and it still works with SOME servers, but it's not reliable. It caused too many security problems, so most servers no longer recognize it.

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[audiopro]

You could create a HTML page which emulates the log in function and submit that to enter the site. This would only work if the log in section didn't use any session checking.

Keith

 

[Foamcow]

On the one hand your client wants the security of a login and password but they find it inconvenient to type them in. I think you need to explain that they can't have it all ways.

Save the logins using the browser's password manager/"remember me" function of the site then secure the machine itself with a login/password.

That way you can't log in to the sites unless you can log in to the machine itself. Once you have logged in to the machine essentially everything is "unlocked"

Mac OSX has a thing called the Keychain in which you can store passwords etc and unlock them all by simply unlocking the keychain.

I am sure there would be some password management software that does a similar thing for Windows. Try googling for "password manager".



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[rhnewfie]

Thanks for all the replies!

I have already thought about emulating the login of sites to see if that works, and it may in some instances but I think that a password manager may be the way to go.

Thanks

Say, is there a way to force an "only for me" install if it is not nativly supported by the application.