starting netscape automaticaly and send 2 parameter

[Shashikiran_1]

Hi ,
We are using GUI based authentication on firewall for other network access . In Unix one user user will open Netscape navigator or mozilla , then provide his userid and passwd and submit.
My question is,..

Is there any way to start Netscape navigator and submit user id and passwd for authentication as soon as system started.?
I can invoke netscape in startup. But how can I send 2 parameters to netscape.?


Thanks in advance..
shashi

[harry d brown jr]

What you need to do is first do an http get, then an http post, something I'm not sure netscape or Mozilla will do for you. Look at curl of lynx for that.

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[Muthukumar_5]

In GUI based browsers, authentication details can not be given. In command line based browsers, you can do it.

Are you using proxy setup? Ask them to setup transparant proxy for not giivng username and password always ;)

hth.

[Gopi Sekar]

I dunno whether this will work, try this:

you can pass on user name and password as part of URL like this
http://username:password@www.website.com

try and see whether it solves your problem.

also, mozilla has remote command, which allows certain commands to be executed on the running browser window

check this link,
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

Hope this helps,
Gopi

[Shashikiran_1]

Hi , Thanks for quick reply..

How can I do this using command mode?
Is this possible from unix shell programming ?

It is using HTTPS protocol. ( https://.41:3443/fwall.htm ).


Thanks ,
Shashi

[harry d brown jr]

Look at curl:

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/curl-7.13.2/

or try Gopi's suggestion to see if that works:

https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@.41:3443/fwall.htm


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[C. Beerse_1]

As far as I know Netscape and Mozilla, they accept url-s (or uri-s) from the commandline. Hence `netscape https://uid:pwd@node:port/path/to/page` should work.

Unfortunately, this uid and pwd in url method does send the uid and the password over the net, all in one package and in plain text!!! Hence a lot of sites donnot allow this password sending (this could also be a Micro$oft thing...) To overcome this, hence most current browsers have other ways to store and send uid-s and pwd-s. Use these meganisms (cookies, automatic forms and such) and start them from the commandline with `mozilla https://node:port/path/to/page`.

btw: Netscape and Mozilla have a lot of commandline options. Have you peeked at them?

You mention it is for the firewall. In our company, we use a proxy-server which is the only one allowed to pass the firewall and all users should use the proxy settings. On unix boxes, setting $PROXY, $HTTP_PROXY, $FTP_PROXY (or $proxy, $http_proxy and $ftp_proxy) to "http://uid:pwd@proxy:3128/" does suit our need. This is similar to defining the proxy in the browser. You might try this on your site too.