I have a program that reads a textfile with data on it, parses it and makes active links to a website, when clicked the page is shown in a frame with internet explorer showing the site.

Now I want to password protect the program or the site to block unregistered users to use the program without permit.

I dont need anything fancy or complicated, so I just made a .htaccess file on my server to ask for a username and password.

The thing is that I want my program to automatically send the parsed textfile filename (with no extension) as username and a fixed password (the same password will be used for every user).

In Netscape, Opera and Firefox this could be done by just making the link to be something like:

http://username:password@server.com

but explorer gives a syntax error when entering this kind of address.

I dont want the users to manualy type the username and password everytime they use the program, nor do I want them to give the username and password to everyone, this is why I need the filename as username, the filename cant be changed.

Thanks in advance for your help!

this is the .net forum BTW

and it's a security patch that was done over 12 months ago

I dont want the users to manualy type the username and password everytime they use the program, nor do I want them to give the username and password to everyone, this is why I need the filename as username, the filename cant be changed.

BTW, Why don't you just make the site public? Just my 2c.

Thanks to Chris I found the registry value to add in order to make Internet Explorer compatible with usernames and password inbeeded in the link:

[IMG]file:///C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG]REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME _PASSWORD_DISABLE]
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000
"explorer.exe"=dword:00000000


This way, I will get a nice access control over the software.

Thanks everyone!

Hi vra1974, Please don't get me wrong.
Are you talking about the changing the registry value on the Client's (your visitor's) computer or your computer?

I'm after a solution to the same problem. I want to give public access to my IP Camera which has its own web server. The only problem is it is protected by a .htaccess password. I want users to be able to view the camera directly without having the password prompt. Any ideas? Thanks!

delete the .htaccess password