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jpmoriarty
12-24-2002, 11:32 AM
Is there some way that I can make a home page which will run on my computer only, and i can put links on it that will enable me to do stuff like check my various emails wiuthout entering all my usernames and passwords and the like? I know it's the sort of thing that gator does, but i got so frustrated by the amount of ads it was throwing at me that i had to get rid of it.
I have a few email accounts (yahoo and uk2.net) and it would be really handy to have a favourites page that automatically let me into my variuos accounts. Any ideas?
Oh, and a merry christmas to you all too...
Zach Elfers
12-24-2002, 12:12 PM
If you know how to have a webpage on your harddrive, make one. On it put links to your email SITES. You will have to connect to your Internet Provider before you can check your email though.
jpmoriarty
12-24-2002, 01:36 PM
i dont think you've read what i've asked though - i know how to make links and so on, that's not the issue. What i want is to write the links so that when i go to the yahoo mail page i dont have to enter my username and password - i want it to be entered automatically from the link.
Less haste, more speed me thinks...
No, I don't think that would be possible. If it were, it would be a major security hole.
Rick Bull
12-24-2002, 01:56 PM
Can't you just turn on the auto-complete feature in your browser? I'm pretty sure both IE and Mozilla do it (as well as Opera 7 beta).
By the way I think Gator is spyware so it was a good thing that you removed it :D
Zach Elfers
12-24-2002, 02:26 PM
Maybe you could create a new page with default values in the two elements: username and password. The default values would be your username and password. Then maybe you could link the forms action to the mail servers action. When you hit submit it might log you in. This sounds interesting so I am going to try it. I will let you know if it works.
Zach Elfers
12-24-2002, 02:30 PM
P.S. You should name the username and password fields the same as the email sites are named.
jpmoriarty
12-24-2002, 03:20 PM
yes zach that does sound much more along the lines that i was thinking of - let me know how you get on, but dont spend all christmas day on it!
i dont think it would be a security hole though would it pyro? all i want it to do is enter a specific username and password - it's not the kind of thing one would want to publish freely, but it would only be as dangerous as the user was stupid, in effect!
Zach Elfers
12-24-2002, 03:54 PM
I have netscape mail, and so far I haven't gotten it to work. I don't have any other accounts, but I was going to make another anyway (really). I will go with some other mail server and then try that site.
Originally posted by jpmoriarty
i dont think it would be a security hole though would it pyro?
Perhaps not, but it seems unlikely that you could enter a username and password protected page without entering your information in.
Zach Elfers
12-24-2002, 04:01 PM
Umm... how could you get in without entering your information? I meant:
<input type="username" name="screenname" value="yourServerUsername">
<input type="password" name="password" value="yourServerPassword">
I didn't mean leave those fields blank.
But how are you going to get that information (from your form) into the form on the website you are trying to log into?
Zach Elfers
12-24-2002, 04:10 PM
1) Go to the site where you have email.
2) Go to the login screen.
3) View the Source.
4) Find the form action and hidden fields.
6) Create the page.
7) Name the elements in your form the same as theirs.
jpmoriarty
12-24-2002, 05:30 PM
i suppose i'm thinking more along the lines of doing some javascript that will fill in the fields automatically, much like something like gator did. And the point is pyro that I do want information to be added to the password protect bit, it's just that I don't want to enter it!
I know you want the information filled in automatically, I'm just not sure that it can be done. Gator certainly doesn't use javascript to do what it does...
Stefan
12-24-2002, 08:52 PM
Originally posted by jpmoriarty
I have a few email accounts (yahoo and uk2.net) and it would be really handy to have a favourites page that automatically let me into my variuos accounts. Any ideas?
I'm still scratching my head about what I'm missing, but IME cookies and my browsers autopassword works just fine.
Yahoo eg got "Remember my ID on this computer" to set a login cookie on your comp.
jpmoriarty
12-25-2002, 04:24 AM
I'm on a school network and if i set it to remember me then sometimes it remembers mo on the other computers in the school too. Also, my computer is never quite secure, and if it automatically entered passwords when you went to the page i wouldnt be too happy - if there was a separate page i could go to though that people would have to look to find, then i'm not too bothered about that.