Passing password value through URL
- by Steven Wright
OK I see a lot of people asking about passing other values, URLS, random stuff through a URL, but don't find anything about sending a password to a password field.
Here is my situation:
I have a ton of sites I use on a daily basis with my work and oh about 90% require logins. Obviously remembering 80 bajillion logins for each site is dumb, especially when there are more than one user name I use for each site. So to make life easier, I drew up a nifty JSP app that stores all of my logins in a DB table and creates a user interface for the specific page I want to visit. Each page has a button that sends a username, password into the id parameters of the html inputs.
Problem:
I can get the usernames and other info to show up just dandy, but when I try and send a password to a password field, it seems that nothing gets received by the page I'm trying to hit.
Is there some ninja stuff I need to be doing here or is it just not easily possible?
Basically this is what I do now:
http://addresshere/support?loginname=steveoooo&loginpass=passwordhere
and some of my html looks like this:
<form name="userform" method="post" action="index.jsp" >
<input type="hidden" name="submit_login" value="y">
<table width="100%">
<tr class="main">
<td width="100" nowrap>Username:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="loginname" value="" size="30" maxlength="64"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="main">
<td>Password: </font></td>
<td><input type="password" name="loginpass" value="" size="30" maxlength="64"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="main">
<td><center><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Login"></center></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Any suggestions?
