Userid:password@ in URL problem

[awingnut]

This may be more of a browser issue then HTML but perhaps someone can shed some light on it. I have a link that sends a user to a page requiring login. Since I know then userid of the user at that particular time, I put the userid in the URL to save the user from typing it. The URL has the form:

https://firstname lastname: @db.mydomain.com/

This works for all the browsers I've tried except IE 6. However, the problem is it never gets to the login window. The user get the "Page cannot be displayed" message. Can anyone tell me why IE 6 would have a problem with this? TIA.

P.S. The reason the %20 is in the password position is because none of the browsers like an empty password field.

 

[stormbind]

protocol://subdomain.domain.ext/file?query suggests you should be using

https://db.mydomain.com?firstname20%lastname

and then extracting the query with a server side script.

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[awingnut]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that is not possible since the db host is not a true HTTP server but rather a database with a web interface. The login process is controlled by the pseudo server in the database and there is no server side scripts available until after the authentication is complete.

 

[kalbert]

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