Re: You *can!!* overwrite username/password using an HTML form. Also, experts *please* see Q at end
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texte = Does the redirect work with a password that contains @?The reason I ask is thathttp://username:p@ssword@http://www.adomain.com and http://username:p%40ssword@http://www.adomain.comwon't work when typed in the Location field in Netscape.Clem.John Butler wrote: > > For the record... > Brice Le Blevennec
has been vindicated. > You *can!!* overwrite username/password using a custom HTML form, rather than requiring your users who need to access protected pages to go thru the browser's > authenticate dialog. > Brice is using the technique on Mac/Webstar and now it is working for me on Linux/Redhat. > > Here's Brices instructions- > ***** > It takes 4 pages (1->4) but works decently. Here is my code. > > I assume that .tpl pages goes through WC without the > tag. (I deleted all and tags) > > 1) Login.tpl > > > 2) step1.tpl (this force the WC var in http headers) > [redirect http://[username]:[password]@http://www.adomain.com/step2.tpl] > > 3) step2.tpl (this remove them from the URL) > [include file=^protect.inc&groups=mygroup] > > > 4) step3.tpl (this redirect to a protected page) > [redirect http://www.adomain.com/anypage.tpl] > > 5) anypage.tpl (can be any page protected by Authenticate). > [include file=^protect.inc&groups=mygroup] Hello [username], [password]. > ***** > > I couldn't get it to work before because nowhere on MY test step2.tpl (see above) was there an [authenticate] or [protect] tag. One of those tags *must* be on the page > where the [redirect] goes (the [redirect] you use to construct the URL with the 'username:password' in it - see step1.tpl above) I don't understand why it needs to be > there, because even if you wrap it in a [showif] which will definately evaluate to false if *just* the username is valid (but the password doesn't have to be valid for > the [showif] to evaluate false) and login with a proper username but invalid password (thus the [showif] skips over the [authenticate]) it somehow still gets the username > and password that were input in the HTML form into the browsers's cache (at least that is where you guys tell me username and password live). But without that > [authenticate] it will never get into the browser's cache - whether the username is valid or not, and whether the password is valid or not (ie- under no circumstances). > I did tests using [elapsedtime] to see if webcat really does skip over things wrapped in a [showif] which evalutes to false and it does indeed seem to (as opposed to > reading the code and then removing it 'after the fact') , so then > > **** !!! WHY DOES the [authenticate] have to be on step2.tpl even if the user inputs a proper username which would skip over the tag in the first place?? !!! **** > > can anyone explain this very bizarre (but in this case advanatgeous) behaviour?? > ?? > -John > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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Does the redirect work with a password that contains @?The reason I ask is thathttp://username:p@ssword@http://www.adomain.com and http://username:p%40ssword@http://www.adomain.comwon't work when typed in the Location field in Netscape.Clem.John Butler wrote: > > For the record... > Brice Le Blevennec has been vindicated. > You *can!!* overwrite username/password using a custom HTML form, rather than requiring your users who need to access protected pages to go thru the browser's > authenticate dialog. > Brice is using the technique on Mac/Webstar and now it is working for me on Linux/Redhat. > > Here's Brices instructions- > ***** > It takes 4 pages (1->4) but works decently. Here is my code. > > I assume that .tpl pages goes through WC without the > tag. (I deleted all and tags) > > 1) Login.tpl > > > 2) step1.tpl (this force the WC var in http headers) > [redirect http://[username]:[password]@http://www.adomain.com/step2.tpl] > > 3) step2.tpl (this remove them from the URL) > [include file=^protect.inc&groups=mygroup] > > > 4) step3.tpl (this redirect to a protected page) > [redirect http://www.adomain.com/anypage.tpl] > > 5) anypage.tpl (can be any page protected by Authenticate). > [include file=^protect.inc&groups=mygroup] Hello [username], [password]. > ***** > > I couldn't get it to work before because nowhere on MY test step2.tpl (see above) was there an [authenticate] or [protect] tag. One of those tags *must* be on the page > where the [redirect] goes (the [redirect] you use to construct the URL with the 'username:password' in it - see step1.tpl above) I don't understand why it needs to be > there, because even if you wrap it in a [showif] which will definately evaluate to false if *just* the username is valid (but the password doesn't have to be valid for > the [showif] to evaluate false) and login with a proper username but invalid password (thus the [showif] skips over the [authenticate]) it somehow still gets the username > and password that were input in the HTML form into the browsers's cache (at least that is where you guys tell me username and password live). But without that > [authenticate] it will never get into the browser's cache - whether the username is valid or not, and whether the password is valid or not (ie- under no circumstances). > I did tests using [elapsedtime] to see if webcat really does skip over things wrapped in a [showif] which evalutes to false and it does indeed seem to (as opposed to > reading the code and then removing it 'after the fact') , so then > > **** !!! WHY DOES the [authenticate] have to be on step2.tpl even if the user inputs a proper username which would skip over the tag in the first place?? !!! **** > > can anyone explain this very bizarre (but in this case advanatgeous) behaviour?? > ?? > -John > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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