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**Emo** · Nov 21st, 2000, 05:26 PM

Hey,
If i want to go here http://email.37.com and I hate to write my username every time I go, can I write something in the URL so it will be already filled for me? I've seen this before and it looked something like http://email.37.com?username=xxxx or something like that.
Thanks for any suggestions!
-Emo

P.S. If you are going to tell me about the program Gator, I already know. It's just that I don't want to use it only for one thing...

Nov 21st, 2000, 06:00 PM

You could try, but it would kind of depend on how they handle the form.

By looking at the source you can see that the login info is called 'username' and 'password' and is submitted by form to http://mail.bigmailbox.com/users/37com/enter.cgi

You could try dummying up a URL based on this that might look like:

http://mail.bigmailbox.com/users/37c...URPASSWORDHERE

...and see if it works.

Paul

PS - I don't think it'll work because their form METHOD="POST" - which means that stuff from the form is passed, not stuff tacked on to the end of the URL.

[Edited by PWNettle on 11-21-2000 at 06:03 PM]

**Emo** · Nov 21st, 2000, 06:07 PM

yeah, you're right! it says that i need to enter my username and password first!

Thanks for the suggestion!
-Emo

Nov 30th, 2000, 10:58 AM

making your own with method=post and the "text" already filled in and mix it with "clicking a url automatically invokes the submit button".

But as PWNettle said, "depend on how they handle the form"; because they could have hidden fields (which you should be able to get from their html source)--not too bad, or cookies--can be bad.

I got stopped from my "automation" method with another site that used cookies. I couldn't decipher the http protocol documentation in order to submit/accept cookies in the manner the site needed.

**Benjamin** · Nov 30th, 2000, 03:12 PM

Yep.. it's really easy... try this

Code:

<HTML>
<BODY>
<FORM ACTION="http://mail.bigmailbox.com/users/37com/enter.cgi" METHOD="post">

<input type=text name=un value="yourusername">
<input type=password name=pw value="yourpassword">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>

**da_silvy** · Dec 6th, 2000, 03:00 AM

Even easier

Code:

<HTML>
<BODY>
<FORM ACTION="http://mail.bigmailbox.com/users/37com/enter.cgi" METHOD="post" name="hello">
<input type=text name=un value="yourusername">
<input type=password name=pw value="yourpassword">
<input type="submit">
</form>
<script language="javascript">
document.hello.submit()
</script>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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