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whycantigetagoodnickname
Lv 7
whycantigetagoodnickname asked in Computers & InternetProgramming & Design · 1 decade ago

Website Login programming help?

I was wondering if all you clever people could help me out here....

Over the course of my life I have signed up to various websites, forums and so on, each requiring a login name and password. Now it can be tricky to remember them all and I don't want to use the same login details for all (and I don't want the computer to 'remember me' either - shared computer and all that goes with it)

What I have done is create a simple HTML page with all these passwords and login details and a link to the login page of each site - dead easy, open up my page, 1 click later and I am where I want to be (quicker than a web search or favourites bar sometimes).

So here is the next step and where I need a little help.

I have all these login details and so on - is there a way to automatically populate the login form with these details in a simple way (perhaps simple javascript saved in the HTML page?) - so one click and I am logged in?

Any help would be good, better would be a worked example

Thanks

Update:

Thanks Devine.... not quite what I was asking though, I know I can get the browser to remember passwords and things, I don't want that.

I want a small HTML file with the links, clicking on the link will log me onto the website. This file can be on a pen drive and where ever I am online I can log onto the websites - not just on my own computer, but say, work and internet cafe and so on - and this is why I don't want remember me and that type of thing.

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  • ʃοχειλ
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    ---- Edited:

    If you want to access it from anywhere, does the same project as I described below but in a remote server. YES! that would mean that you would need a web hosting.

    Make sure it is fully password protected and sensitive data are encrypted. You may choose not to use a database, but use one page for each site you want to log-in automatically. I emphasize that make sure each page is carefully password-protected.

    You may also keep the static HTML files in a USB flash (memory stick), of course, if all cafe nets let you use USB memory.

    ----

    You may not use Javascript for this because, for security reasons, Javascript is not allowed to access the client's (user's) computer hard-disk.

    You could however do it using pseudo server-side programming using your own computer as a web server (localhost). For example, you could use PHP (normally with MySQL database) or ASP.Net (C#/VB normally with MS-SQL or MS-Access database). It wouldn't be that difficult if you know already one of these programming tools, but you should know that it is a non-trivial project.

    What you would do in project is to design a site whose role is to save and retrieve your passwords (a web-based password manager). Because this site is working on localhost, the internet users may not access it, so it is secure.

    It would be best if this local site is password protected itself, too. Besides, because the data is browse-able in the databases, you could use a two-way encryption to save sensitive materials in encryption in database.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You could just make your life simpler and use FireFox you know. If you choose 'remember me' FireFox provides the same feature you just described:

    Tools > Options > Security > Saved Passwords

    This lists the URL of the log-in page and the user-name and the password you have saved. You can even protect this feature with a master password. When visiting a site FireFox would fill the details in automatically.

    You say you don't want to use 'remember me' but I don't see any reason why not to especially if you are going to store all your passwords in plain-text in a file on your computer, least with FireFox feature the data is encrypted.

    EDIT:

    That wouldn't be possible, unless you save the login pages frome ach site onto the pen drive and then edit the HTML code so that the default values of the login fields are filled in then all you would have to do is click login.

    But this would be plain text and anyone could read the file and see the username and password so it would be dangerous to lose.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Website Login Software provides password protection for files on the Internet or a private network. Define any number of password protected folders and insert your content. Then create user accounts to give people access. A user can be given access to any number of areas and user credentials are verified each time a page request is made.source:

    Source(s): source:http://www.websitelogin.com/
  • ?
    5 years ago

    PHP/MySQL can work together easily and are fairly simple to learn given you have some background with html. Use PHP if you want to make your sites dynamic, including having users login.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    To download Mozilla Firefox for free you can click here http://j.mp/1p6kqGa

    It is one of the best avaible browser of the web.

    Good Bye

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