Include Username and Password Into a Link

[kuma_24]

We have a customer who has to log into their corporate site in order to get to a link that will bring them to our website. Since they are already logged into their corporate site we do not need them to log into our website when they get there (they are already a secure user). So we are looking to include the username and password into the link they will click on to get to our website. Is there any way to include those parameters into a link or a way to turn off authentication all together? The catch is when logging into the database through filemaker we still want the authentication to appear for our developers and employees. So we can't just open the database with a "try this password by default" option. Any help on this issue is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Nick

[Martin Brändle]

Nick,

well, you could write a link as http://name:[email protected]/...

However, this a security risk because the password is sent as clear text.

In addition, MS has turned this off in it's IE, and this technique would not work.

Another way would be to use a cookie mechanism. E.g. you check if a certain cookie is set and then access is granted to an otherwise guest-enabled database.

The customers would get that cookie when they are on their corporate site.

The developers and employees would get such a cookie after authenticating in the database with developer/employee accounts.

However, this would need reprogramming a whole bunch of your XSLT style sheets.