I think this is a browser-intern thing. A person looking over your shoulder could read it. But IE will translate this into a just normal request. There's no difference to a request where IE had asked for credentials. From within your servlet you will not even be able to realize it.
On 6 Dec 2002 at 19:04, Andreas Probst wrote: > Hi Mike, > > try http://name:pass@www..... > > How do you know the password? > > Andreas > > On 6 Dec 2002 at 8:33, J Doe wrote: > > > > > Background: Consider two webapps: foo and bar. When a > > user of foo performs a certain action, foo shares > > files with bar by calling actions on each other via > > HTTP. > > > > We are being asked to put a memory realm on foo and > > bar so that users must login. The problem is that now > > the above system-level communication between foo and > > bar will break. > > > > Question: if one knows the username and password for a > > webapp, can it be placed on the URL? > > > > E.g. > > http://mydomain.com:8080/foo?username=x&password=y > > > > I've tried this but no luck. > > > > More generally, is there a way to do it with the > > java.net URL class? > > > > Any ideas? I realize that perhaps foo and bar could > > communicate in a different way (RMI, JMS) but that is > > not really an option for us. > > > > thanks, > > Mike > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For > > additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For > additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
