But WHY would you want to! This is like putting your page in a safe and taping the combination to the door. Your username and password are now logged in the server log and if you are creating an HTML page with this as a link then there is the chance that the link will get spidered into a search engine/web archive. Oren ----- Oren Levin, Web Developer olevin at audible.com, 973.837.2811 Give the gift of audio - http://www.audible.com/giftcenter -----Original Message----- From: Means, Eric D > -----Original Message----- > From: Serkan Cavusoglu [mailto:serkan1773 at yahoo.ca] > > How can I pass my username and password within a link to access a password protected directory, > so that the browser does not pop up a message box. http://user:password@www.mylinkserver.com/this/is/the/path.html