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<h2>Background</h2>

<p>All of the scriptsweb pages and webscripts pages that TIM Enterprise providesserves are 
protected by a login (username and password) that is provided by thea 
user throughwhen entering their username and password into a pop-up dialog presented by their web browser.</p>

<p>In <p>Sometimessome situations, it is desirable to allowsuppress automaticthis accessdialog tobox ademanding particular 
web page using a pre-supplied the username and password.  An example might 
be the deployment of a stand-alone computer displaying a pre-defined 
wallboard on a large screen; it Itwould can become tedious having to log in to the web page every time that computer is switched onrestarted.</p>


<p>Different web browsers behave differently forwhen automatic logging-asked to automatically log in to  web pagessites.  Variously, they range from complete prohibition of the 
practise, to permitting it only if certain system parameters are configured.</p>

<h2>Specifics</h2>

<p>In this article, details of how to allow automatic logging-in to a 
web page concerns the Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 6 and above) 
browsers only.  Please consult your browser documentation for a solution  related to your own choice of browser.</p>


<p>The solution involves creating a specially-crafted URL in the following form:-</p>

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<h2>Solution</h2>

<p>Although including the username and password in a URL is disabled by 
default on Windows Internet Explorer since it is considered a security 
risk, you can override this restriction by making the following changes 
to the Windows Registry.</p>
Warning

WARNING! Since you'll be exposing a username and password as part of a URL, it is recommended that you create a dedicated web user object inside the TIM Enterprise directory that will be used solely for this purpose.  See Adding/Removing Web Users for details of how to set up a web user.

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<p>Replace the following items:-</p>

<ul>
	<li><span class="keyword">USERNAME</span> replace with the username of the web user you use to access the page</li>
	<li><span class="keyword">PASSWORD</span> replace with the password of the web user you use to access the page</li>
	<li><span class="keyword">HOSTNAME</span> replace with the host name or IP address of the machine running TIM Enterprise</li>
</ul>

<h2>References</h2>

<p>This information is available from Microsoft's supportin more detail at the Microsoft Support site:-</p>

<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489</a>