Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 20:42:15 08/30/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 15:10:39, Howard Exner wrote: >On August 30, 2000 at 11:52:48, Heiner Marxen wrote: > > >>However, there is a way to stuff username and password into the URL, >>explicitly. I do not exactly remember the details... together with some >>delimiting special chars they are inserted after the // and before the hostname. >>You could them bookmark the extended URL, and would not have to type in >>username and password ever again. >>Of course, no one else should be able to see this bookmarked URL... >>for obvious reasons. >> >>May be someone can fill in the details. > >I use this link for Internet Explorer, >where you substitute the "Login" and "password" with your own unique >Login name and password. >I'm not sure if it works with Netscape. > >http://Login:password@icdchess.com/forums/1/filter.html Yes, exactly, that matches my vague memories! Thanks for the details. And I have done it that way with netscape some month ago, and it worked, if I remember right. I didn't like it for other reasons, and stopped to use it. I also believe this (the extension of the URL) is just what the browsers do to communicate that data to the web server, but I'm not sure about it. If that is correct, most (if not all) browsers should support such extended URLs (by just transferring it). Heiner
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