Re: Changing RAM-cached browser values ...
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texte = I greatly appreciate your reply Ken. Only unsatisfying part is that Brice said he was successfully doing it for months already.! You suppose he is really that far out there to think he was having that success for months when he was not? (A genuine question.) I don't want to waste time but it's hard to give up when there is reason to think it can be done ?? -John> >>> There must be a way to set the username and password using a form so the > >>> browser remembers it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > >>Brice said he did it sucessfully using the following tricks: > >>... > >>I use it daily since I found it (and sent my trick to the list), > >>a few month ago. Works fine in both Explorer and Netscape in both > >>SSL and normal http. Brice > > > >But I can't get this to work for me. When I display [username] and > >[password] on > >protectedpage.tmpl I see they both have a value of nothing.Kenneth Grome wrote:> This trick solution will not work. > > You have to change the RAM-cached username and password values IN THE > BROWSER before the browser will send those new values to webcatalog > upon each http request. Webcatalog *cannot* make the browser change > those RAM-cached values. > > The only way I know of to make a browser replace one set of > RAM-cached username and password values with another is to type two > new values into the browser's authentication box. A javascript *may* > have the ability to mimic this action, but webcatalog certainly > cannot do this. > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I greatly appreciate your reply Ken. Only unsatisfying part is that Brice said he was successfully doing it for months already.! You suppose he is really that far out there to think he was having that success for months when he was not? (A genuine question.) I don't want to waste time but it's hard to give up when there is reason to think it can be done ?? -John> >>> There must be a way to set the username and password using a form so the > >>> browser remembers it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > >>Brice said he did it sucessfully using the following tricks: > >>... > >>I use it daily since I found it (and sent my trick to the list), > >>a few month ago. Works fine in both Explorer and Netscape in both > >>SSL and normal http. Brice > > > >But I can't get this to work for me. When I display [username] and > >[password] on > >protectedpage.tmpl I see they both have a value of nothing.Kenneth Grome wrote:> This trick solution will not work. > > You have to change the RAM-cached username and password values IN THE > BROWSER before the browser will send those new values to webcatalog > upon each http request. Webcatalog *cannot* make the browser change > those RAM-cached values. > > The only way I know of to make a browser replace one set of > RAM-cached username and password values with another is to type two > new values into the browser's authentication box. A javascript *may* > have the ability to mimic this action, but webcatalog certainly > cannot do this. > ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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