link to secure section

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Pam

Using FP2003. I have a section of a web site protected with a username and
password. When I post the monthly newsletter to this section, I send out an
email to everyone telling them about the new posting. Can I set up a link
in the email that will take them there and sign them in automatically,
without asking them to enter the username and password? I don't know if you
can include something like this in the link or not.
Thanks,
Pam
 
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Mike Mueller

Pam-

Maybe.

If the page is in a secure iis folder (
https://www.domain.com/page1) and they are authenticated on
the domain then they will not have to re-authenticate.

All other situations: most likely

Mike

Pam wrote:
: Using FP2003. I have a section of a web site protected
: with a username and password. When I post the monthly
: newsletter to this section, I send out an email to
: everyone telling them about the new posting. Can I set
: up a link in the email that will take them there and sign
: them in automatically, without asking them to enter the
: username and password? I don't know if you can include
: something like this in the link or not.
: Thanks,
: Pam
 
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Jim Buyens

Sorry, but no.

There was a convention floating around whereby you could
specify:

http://username:[email protected]/secure/default.htm

but the browsers that once supported this are phasing it
out. For one thing, it's not a good idea to have suernames
and passwords floating around like this as plain text. For
another, this makes it too easy for hackers and crackers
to try thousands of username/password combinations until
they find one that works.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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