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<h2>Background</h2> <p>All of the web pages and scripts that TIM Enterprise serves are protected by a login that is provided by a user when entering their username and password into a pop-up dialog inpresented by their web browser.</p> <p>In some situations, it is desirable to suppress this dialog box demanding the username and password. An example might be the deployment of a stand-alone computer displaying a pre-defined wallboard on a large screen; it would become tedious having to log in to the web page every time that computer is restarted.</p> <p>Different web browsers behave differently when asked to automatically log in to web sites. Variously, they range from complete prohibition of the practise to permitting it only if certain system parameters are configured.</p> <h2>Specifics</h2> <p>In this article, details of how to allow automatic logging-in to a web page concerns the Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 6 and above) browsers only. Please consult your browser documentation for a solution related to your own choice of browser.</p> <p>The solution involves creating a specially-crafted URL in the following form:-</p> |
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<h2>Solution</h2> <p>Although including the username and password in a URL is disabled by default on Windows Internet Explorer since it is considered a security risk, you can override this restriction by making the following changes to the Windows Registry.</p> |
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WARNING! Since you'll be exposing a username and password as part of a URL, it is recommended that you create a dedicated web user object inside the TIM Enterprise directory that will be used solely for this purpose. See Adding/Removing Web Users for details of how to set up a web user. |
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