automating login details
is there any way of automatically providing my username and password when i go to a certain website i need to use frequently? i have got as far as saving a URL file so that at least i don't have to type that part every time. perhaps there's a standard way (which i should know but don't) of including the username and password in the URL file? thanks. -- no need to reply my entire message back to me ;=] Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk Abbey Press 32 Norbins Rd(01458) 83 3603 Glastonbury BA6 9JG pocket 0797 415 3861 before emailing large files (1Mb), please ask me for FTP details
Re: automating login details
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:00:16 +0100 Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: is there any way of automatically providing my username and password when i go to a certain website i need to use frequently? It depends. If the site is using basic auth (ie, the browser pops up a dialogue box asking you for a username and password) you can often pass this information in the URL; http://username:passw...@www.foo.bar.com/ If the user name and password is collected via a form on the web page, and the site doesn't have a remember me tick box, you'll need to use a browser that can automatically fill in forms and remember passwords for you. There was a hack floating about to automatically fill in forms for browsers under RISC OS, but I don't recall its name. B.
Re: automating login details
In article 3591db4c50@nails.ukonline.co.uk, Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: is there any way of automatically providing my username and password when i go to a certain website i need to use frequently? i have got as far as saving a URL file so that at least i don't have to type that part every time. perhaps there's a standard way (which i should know but don't) of including the username and password in the URL file? You need to look at the HTML source of the log-in page and see what the names of the variables used are. Then you can often add something like: ?name=Jimpass=nagelpass to the URL. There is sometimes a hidden variable required as well, so add that with another ampersand. But, obviously, I've just made these variable names up. You need to dissect the form on the page. I do this a lot! John -- || John Williams || Brittany, Northern France Who is John Williams? http://petit.four.free.fr/picindex/author/ E-mail replies only accepted from RISC OS machines or RISC in subject line Somewhere nice to stay in Brittany? http://petit.four.free.fr/visitors/locate
Re: automating login details
On 16 Apr 2009 Rob Kendrick r...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:00:16 +0100 Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: is there any way of automatically providing my username and password when i go to a certain website i need to use frequently? It depends. If the site is using basic auth (ie, the browser pops up a dialogue box asking you for a username and password) you can often pass this information in the URL; http://username:passw...@www.foo.bar.com/ If the user name and password is collected via a form on the web page, and the site doesn't have a remember me tick box, you'll need to use a browser that can automatically fill in forms and remember passwords for you. There was a hack floating about to automatically fill in forms for browsers under RISC OS, but I don't recall its name. Not a hack, but Kevin Wells's FFiler (the links given in the Help file and on the software database seem to be dead, and Google hasn't been my friend) will keep data and transfer it into NetSurf's icons. However, maybe you don't want to keep passwords in it ... With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter, \ / zfc Tm \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 Anne\/ ____\ England. and / / \ | | |\ | / _\ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk family / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
