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Is there any way I can pass the user name and password to "http://[ServerName]/[WebAlias]/default.aspx?StartItem=[ItemType]:[ItemID]"
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Hi,
I don´t think this is possible due to security reasons. But you can pass database and authentication mode when using Windows Authentication.
If you use Windows auth mode, users can reuse existing logins which normally speeds up the login process.Let me know if you (or somebody else) knows a solution in case I was wrong!
Try to use the basic HTTP authentication, which sends the credentials in the standard HTTP "Authorization" header. The format of the URL for this method is: mr mine
[embed:dc8ab71f-3b98-42d9-b0f6-e21e02a0f8e2:d2e066dd-f957-41d9-9fcf-e4274f9ef3a6:type=text&text=http%3A%2F%2Fusername%3Apassword%40ServerName%2FWebAlias%2Fdefault.aspx%3FStartItem%3DItemType%3AItemID]
Another method is to use a custom authentication mechanism, which can use query parameters, HTTP headers, cookies, or tokens to verify the credentials. For example, you can generate a time-limited token for each user and add it to the URL, like this:
[embed:dc8ab71f-3b98-42d9-b0f6-e21e02a0f8e2:9945d040-3a24-4c7a-a4db-c26eed11418d:type=text&text=http%3A%2F%2FServerName%2FWebAlias%2Fdefault.aspx%3Ftoken%3Dbigtokengoeshere%26StartItem%3DItemType%3AItemID]
Both have advantages and disadvantages, choose the method that best suits your problem.
Sorry, when I attached the link automatically it shortened and lost information so I inserted the code. Hope it's not wrong.
Hi Alan,
I'm not sure I'm doing this correctly. When I tried your first example I still get the Aras login box. I'm using Aras v11.11. This is how I formatted the URL:
My goal was to launch this from another application without the user needing to login to aras. The username and password are from a read only aras account that only displays contact information and nothing else.
