Q: Automatic authentification

[Vycka]

Hi,

There is a computer network. All computers are in a workgroup. In the
network there is also a server that contains running web applicationion.
With that web application users work with other usernames, which are located
in the server.

When the user (client) tries to connect to that application (using IE), he
gets an authentification form with the proper username and password offered.
Then the users has only to press OK and authentification complete.
The same authentification form pops up when the web application tries to
download a file from the server.

Now the question is:
Is there a posibility that windows (or IE) would remember entered
credentials when the user logs into that web application first time?
In other words, is it possible that user could authentificate only once when
he first time tries to connect to the web application?

I appreciate any help.

Thank you

Vytautas

 

[Roger Abell]

IE settings allow for the caching of credentials used when
browsing websites. This is within the internet options of IE.

 

[Vycka]

I tried these:
- Internet options -> Security -> Trusted sites -> Custom level... ->
Automatic logon with current username and password
- Also when I got the authentification form I checked box "Remember
password".

It didn't help. It still throws me an authentification form (although proper
username and password are already entered in the form fields).

Any more ideas?

Vytautas

 

[Roger Abell]

I am sorry, I misread you intial post.
When a web application is presenting its internal login
and IE is configured to remember password, what you
say you are seeing is what you should be seeing - the
login dialog prefilled with the credentials. It does not
automate pressing enter for you.

 

[Vycka]

Yes, now I know it.

So my question would be:

Is there a possibility to bypass this dialog that user would not have to
press enter each time?
Maybe some registry configuration, special utilities, user mapping
technique, anything?...

Vytautas

 

[Roger Abell]

I am not aware of such a way, and as I think about it, I am
pretty sure that for myself I would not want such. If I do
want to log into their web application, or not, at that time
is something I would like to decide by clicking login, or not.
For such to be useful you would really want some way to
set that for just the selected website, not a global setting.

Now, on the other hand, if this is your web application,
then there are things you could do with cookies so that you
could recognize returning visitors without routing them
through the login window.