In message <7624df4c50.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>
Dr Peter Young <pnyo...@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
>On 16 Apr 2009 Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:00:16 +0100
>> Jim Nagel <nets...@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> is there any way of automatically providing my username and password
>>> when i go to a certain website i need to use frequently?
>
>> It depends. If the site is using basic auth (ie, the browser pops up a
>> dialogue box asking you for a username and password) you can often pass
>> this information in the URL;
>
>> http://username:passw...@www.foo.bar.com/
>
>> If the user name and password is collected via a form on the web page,
>> and the site doesn't have a "remember me" tick box, you'll need to use
>> a browser that can automatically fill in forms and remember passwords
>> for you.
>
>> There was a hack floating about to automatically fill in forms for
>> browsers under RISC OS, but I don't recall its name.
>
>Not a hack, but Kevin Wells's FFiler (the links given in the Help file
>and on the software database seem to be dead, and Google hasn't been
>my friend) will keep data and transfer it into NetSurf's icons.
>However, maybe you don't want to keep passwords in it ...
I had to change the web space as the topcities one became unreliable to
change things.
http://riscos.kevsoft.co.uk/
>
>With best wishes,
>
>Peter.
>
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