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Hi

On my menu ssytem I want to user to select an item on the menu to go to a
website that is password protected without entering the username/password.
Can you enter the username/password in the menu so the user doesn't have to
enter it?

my menu item would be...

ID_website [My Website](command "browser"
"http://www.mywebsite.com/passwordprotected");

Thanks for the help

max

 

Yes ...but the menu system will be used by different users...and a lot of
users delete their cookies all the time...so by entering the
username/password, in the menu, they don't have to worry about entering it
in all the time.

 

You need to use what is called a QueryString, i.e. one or more
name=value pairs that is appended to the URL.

website.com/somepage.aspx?name=userName&pwd=userPassword

When the somepage.aspx file is requested from the server the
QueryString values will be read by code in the somepage.aspx file.
The name and password values are usually stored in a database where
those obtained from the QueryString are used to compare with those
in the database. This is called 'authentication.'

If the user is authenticated the page continues to process, if the
request is not authenticated the page redirects to a login page. There
are variations on this methodology of course but what I've described is
how authentication is done on most websites.

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Max, I'm not an web page guru but I think it all depends on how that website
checks for the user/password. Java, ASP, VB or whatever. The thing you need
to do is get with the siteowner and see what it requires. If its your
company's site why not get the owner to create one page for the index that
doesn't require a password for internal use.


Murph