On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:28:12 -0600, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund@system3r.se> wrote:
>I want to add a link on my application's help menu where the user's
>default browser will be opened on a customer page on our website.
>
>The website is hosted on a provider running Apache server and I have
>protected the customer pages using the .htpasswd file where user
>logins adn password hashes are stored.
>
>Now I would like our application to be able to launch the browser on
>this webpage with the user/password already inside the URL passed to
>the browser so that the login dialogue does not pop up and the user
>gets immediately to the webpage.
>This way the application will be "logged on" transparently to the
>user.
>
>Is it possible to do this (to compose such an URL text)???
>
>And please tell me if I am posting on the wrong NG for such a
>question, it seemed the closest I could get to, but might be wrong
>anyway...
I got some replies from the apache ng, which indicate that this cannot
be done anymore. THere was a possibility way back in earlier browsers
but it was removed because it was a security hole.
So I have to use a different strategy altogether...
/Bo
