passing username/password as parameters

[Toe]

is there any way of calling a page and passign the apache login username/password.

what I am trying to do here is call one system from another - where the second system is called by opening a browser and passing a URL .

The page called is subject to apache security and asks the user to log in.

but the first system knows the username and password to log on as and I would like to avoid the log in process

 

[feherke]

Hi

I think you write about HTTP authentication. In that case :

[URL unfurl="true"]http://username:password@www.example.com/login.php[/URL]

Feherke.

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[Wullie]

Hi

I think you write about HTTP authentication. In that case :

[URL unfurl="true"]http://username:password@www.example.com/login.php[/URL]

This used to work years ago but you will have problems with it now. A lot of the phishing sites were sending users to URLs such as the following so some browsers will block this type of URL now:

paypal.com/blah/blah/blah:blah@otherdomain.com

If you make the URL long enough, it looks legimimate but it is actually going to another site.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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