Author: Real Gagnon
Author's WebSite: http://tactika.com/realhome/realhome.html
URL can be constructed with a special syntax to include an username and password. The format is username:password@www.server.com. The URL is protected using the mechanism included with the web server.
<HTML><HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
var targetUrl="www.server.com/protect/default.html";
function login() {
if (validLogin()) {
password = document.userInfos.username.value;
username = document.userInfos.password.value;
self.location.href=
"http://"+username+":"+password+"@"+targetUrl;
}
}
function validLogin() {
if (isBlank(document.userInfos.username.value)){
alert("Can't be blank");
document.userInfos.username.focus();
return false;
}
if (isBlank(document.userInfos.password.value)){
alert("Can't be blank");
document.userInfos.password.focus();
return false;
}
return true;
}
function isBlank(s) {
return (s == "");
}
</SCRIPT>
<BODY onLoad="document.userInfos.username.focus();">
<H1><CENTER>Identification </H1></CENTER>
<CENTER><TABLE BORDER=1>
<FORM NAME=userInfos>
<TR><TD>User: </TD><TD>
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME=username LENGTH=20></TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Password: </TD><TD>
<INPUT TYPE="password" NAME=password LENGTH=20>
</TD></TR>
<TR ALIGN=center>
<TD></TD><TD>
<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Ok" onClick="login()">
</TD></TR></TABLE></FORM></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
Posted On: 10-Jul-1999
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