stumpy Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 Microsofts latest security update for Internet Explorer has removed the browsers capabilty to decode url constructed in the syntax http://username:password@domain.com/ For guys who develop this is noteworth and also in my own experience my autocomplete password list for basic authentication seems to have been deleted. SD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli13 Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 thanks for the tip. guess I'll try to avoid any more updates or just rely on good old netscape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straycat Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 their next update should be to turn IE into Mozilla Firebird (this one in the 0.8 version, still in beta, from the nightly builds ftp archive rocks!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Aha! So that's why.... Thanks for that. How can u get around that? Does anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 Workaround Goto drive:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\ coyy Iexplore.exe as younameit.exe make a shortcut to younameit.exe and put it onto the Desktop Run the shortcut to younameit.exe You get a messagebox with "This is being run in compability mode and not all features are enabled" IExplorer should now work as before! Another - more risky - way is the following Registry hack: Simply copy this into notepad: (without the begin and end-line ) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 _____________BEGIN_________________ Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE] "iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000 "explorer.exe"=dword:00000000 _____________END______________ Save it e.g. as "IE.reg" and execute, and the update is disabled! Or you could run 'regedit' and add the keys manually. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 I've tried the first two ways you've posted. Neither seems to work. The first says that I cannot enter it as it is not a valid reg entry. The second, it seems maybe I don't fully understand. Is IE.exe the same as the IE program file folder. I tried copying the whole folder and doing as you wrote, though that only opened the IE folder. I tried to copy just the IE application, though I cannot do that as it is being used by the system... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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