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Entering login details on external website using a button

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Dec 09.2009

Is it possible to create a form on a page whereby a user enters a username and password into two seperate textboxes. If they click a button, an external webpage is opened. Their login details are then filled into the login part of the external website. The reason for doing this is that I have to monitor a number of accounts which require to me to login and out of each account almost daily. I has thinking a webpage with a nice script where I could just click on their name, send the info to textboxes and then submit it to the external website would be very handy. If there’s a better or easier way to do this I’d appreciate a nudge in the right direction.

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@slaughtersDec 09.2009 — Yes - but you would need to know the field names used for username and password on the external site as well as the name of the server side application that the external site uses for logging in (this is sometimes pretty well hidden, especially if something like Java Struts is being used on the server side).

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Hope that the external site does not block login requests coming from foreign domains, third party referrers or some other filtering scheme.
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@lancer123authorDec 09.2009 — Cheers for reply. How would I find out what server side application is used? I'm guessing View Page Source is not gonna provide it??
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