Adding a username/password to a URL or passing username/password to another URL

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Adding a username/password to a URL or passing username/password to another URL

jlnewnam

Hi All...

I want the following logic to happen.

ButtonClick > New window opens > Username/Password are already entered > User clicks 'Login' and is logged into the appropriate site.

I'm at a loss... I've seen this occur before (Yes... after IE fixed the issue with IE6+), but I can't figure it out on my own... Need some help.

I've tried this...

Username:PassWord1@university.edu/portal/server.pt

and this... (using query parameters)

https://xxx.university.edu/portal/server.pt?userName=SomeUser&password=somePassword

...but no luck. Wondering if there's a JS for this that would work in IE8?

Regards,

007Julien

Use encodeURIComponent with the params

jlnewnam

The params are in the URL. encodeURIComponent is a JS function. How would I implement that into the URL?

007Julien

If you want to pass the parameters in URL with a GET request, call the server with javascript like this (W3Crecommandation The "get" method restricts form data set values to ASCII characters):

// the two value (javascript variables) 
var usrName=document.getElementById('idusrName').value;
var pssWord=document.getElementById('idPssword').value;

// The call
document.location='https://xxx.university.edu/portal/server.pt?username='+encodeURIComponent(usrName)+'&password'+encodeURIcomponent(pssWrd);

This lines are only to write in a submit function...
Then you have not to decode on the server with the $_GET in PHP (See the note on this page).

jlnewnam

What if I were to contain the school login site on our intranet site, inside an iframe? Would that make any difference?

Padonak

why don't you just try it instead of asking? ))