Passing authentication information in html format

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HIE

I have a html form and when submitting a request to the url, I also want to pass the crendtials using basic-auth

Can anyone share some sample code on how to do this?

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Vik 04 Sep '09 at 16:02

1 answer

ZippyV · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-04T16:05:11+0000

You can set the url of the form action attribute

http://username:password@www.yourserver.com/somewebpage.html

but I don't think this will work with Internet Explorer. There have been some spammers abusing this and Microsoft turned it off.