Download PDF via browser authentication using javascript
I understand that I can authenticate the browser with Javascript and then grab, say, an XML file with that javascript. My use case is slightly different: there is a link to a web page in PDF on another server. This server performs browser authentication. The username and password are NOT secrets, because right now we are publishing the link as follows:
"Download PDF (use guest / guest as username / password)".
What I need: the user clicks the link but does NOT have to fill in the username / password because we see a lot of users get confused by this (in usability tests).
We do not have access to another server hosting the PDF file.
Any ideas?
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You can write a link like this: http: // gast: gast@mis.vlaanderen.be /cognos7/metadata/mp_v_i_im_020_e100_az_algemeen_overzicht.pdf
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This url is a test one: http://mis.vlaanderen.be/cognos7/metadata/mp_v_i_im_020_e100_az_algemeen_overzicht.pdf
The username is "gast", the password is "gast" (as specified in the authentication window).
If you can embed this in a page in a link and open it without launching a browser authentication window, you are my hero :)
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