[thelist] link to a password protected directory

Oren Levin lists at pinetree.net
Thu Jul 11 11:19:02 CDT 2002


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
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-----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




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