Login dialog box?

[Antonio Delgado]

I was wondering how you create a standard login dialog box that is
commonly used before you can enter some sites. It asks for a user name
and password and usually it will have a checkbox asking if the user
wants to save the password in the password list. It is very common
and I am pretty sure everyone knows what I am talking about. I have
been searching through the news groups and I have yet to find anything
that is helpful. I am assuming this can be solved in javascript, but
if there are any another ways to do it I would appreciate that as
well. Thanks very much in advance.

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Login dialog box?

Antonio Delgado wrote:
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> I was wondering how you create a standard login dialog box that is
> commonly used before you can enter some sites. It asks for a user name
> and password and usually it will have a checkbox asking if the user
> wants to save the password in the password list.[/color]

<form action="..." ...>
User&nbsp;name: <input name="username" ><br>
Password: <input type="password" name="password" ><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>

What you are experiencing by the dialog box that is displayed on submit is
a built-in browser feature (I know of it in IE as AutoComplete and as Form
Manager's Auto-Fill-in in Mozilla/5.0,) not something triggered with
JavaScript code.


PointedEars

[VK]

Re: Login dialog box?

You must be talking about the Basic Authentication protocol. Any good
browser indeed has a built-in interface to handle this protocol, and a
really good one also provides a way to store password/login locally (if
you want to). The Basic Authentication protocol is initiated by server.
You can mimic it appearance/behavior by using JavaScript, but you cannot
recreate the provided security level.

If you are hosting your site on Apach-driven server (a very good chance
that you are), read

http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/htpasswd.html

It's not so difficult at all.

[Antonio Delgado]

Re: Login dialog box?

I am making a web interface that will allow users to interact with a
system through a web browser. And of course must have a user name and a
password to log into the system. I want to have a login dialog box to
get the user's name and password as opposed to a login page. As far as
saving the password with the AutoComplete... I am not worried about
that...I just mentioned that to help describe what the dialog box looks
like. It is pretty common and it looks like any other alert or prompt. I
don't think that it is just HTML because it has the look and behavior of
a dialog box. And it pops up when someone enters a site but before any
web page is opened. I hope this makes sense and that it helps clarify me
earlier post. If not let me know and I will get back to you. And once
again thanks.

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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Login dialog box?

Antonio Delgado wrote:
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> I want to have a login dialog box to get the user's name and password as
> opposed to a login page.[/color]

You mean HTTP (Basic) Authentication which is not done with JavaScript, too:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html

PointedEars

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Login dialog box?

VK wrote:[color=blue]
> You must be talking about the Basic Authentication protocol. Any good
> browser indeed has a built-in interface to handle this protocol,[/color]

(Basic) Authentication is a feature of HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol
(versions 1.0 and above), not a separate protocol. Thus any HTTP user agent,
including web browsers, is required to support it:

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1945.html#sec-11

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec11.html#sec11

PointedEars