Re: LYNX-DEV Password protected pages during -traversal

[Jason Baker]

Scott McGee (Personal) writes:
> 
> Doug,
> 
> We are talking about password protected web pages here. Using your account
> login and password on such pages would be a BAD idea. Since I don't do that,
> there is no problem with someone doing a ps-aw to get my login and password.
> At most, they would get a password and login for some web page. Yes, a
> security hole, but then recall my first suggestion was to skip password 
> protected pages anyway.

What about a flag to prompt you immediately for a userid and password
pair?  IE: start lynx, and before you minimize the window, put in the
user and password and lynx will just try those against every page.  The
biggest problem I could see is that it won't know specifically which
host identifier to use them against, but that's not a big deal.

That lets you both check secured pages for bad links, and to keep the
pairs private.

> Scott

Jason

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