One person I talked to recently hypothesized that IE intentionally makes it 
difficult to automate the authentication dialog in order to discourage hackers 
from using a brute force attack to crack passwords.  Seems silly now that most 
authentication is done within an easily automatable html form.

Reminds me of the Unix passwd utility, which requires a specialized tool to 
automate, since it doesn't work with simple input redirection.  If only with IE 
it were as simple as running an "expect" script.  :-)
-- 
Danny R. Faught
Tejas Software Consulting
http://tejasconsulting.com/
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