Vista - How to pass credentials to Authentication Window on the web.

Hello all,

In powershell, how can I pass the credentials to a authenticaiton window of
a web site.

Assuming I wish to nagivate to www.yahoo.com/admin and I get prompted for
the network username and password, how can I provide these two fields with
the proper value from PowerShell without being prompted for the dialog window.

I know I'll have to save the password in some secure file but for now I just
want to know if its fesable.

Thanks in advance

Vlince wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In powershell, how can I pass the credentials to a authenticaiton window of
> a web site.
>
> Assuming I wish to nagivate to www.yahoo.com/admin and I get prompted for
> the network username and password, how can I provide these two fields with
> the proper value from PowerShell without being prompted for the dialog window.
>
> I know I'll have to save the password in some secure file but for now I just
> want to know if its fesable.
>
> Thanks in advance
>

Check this out:
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/...web-forms.html

Thank you Marco unfortunately this is not what I was looking for :-(

Although the article is great (I've bookmarked it hehehe) what I'm looking
for is:

How to pass domain\username and password to the Network Authentication
Dialog that prompts you when you try to access a particular web site.

Thanks

Vlince wrote:
> Thank you Marco unfortunately this is not what I was looking for :-(
>
> Although the article is great (I've bookmarked it hehehe) what I'm looking
> for is:
>
> How to pass domain\username and password to the Network Authentication
> Dialog that prompts you when you try to access a particular web site.
>
> Thanks
>

Is it something you just need to run on your local computer to automate
something? I wonder if you can use the AutoIt
(http://www.autoitscript.com/) COM interface to do this...

> Is it something you just need to run on your local computer to automate
> something? I wonder if you can use the AutoIt
> (http://www.autoitscript.com/) COM interface to do this...

Yup, sure looks like it can be done:

[start IE here with the com object or whatever to the proper page]
$autoitx=new-object -com autoitx3.control
$autoitx.winactivate("some dialog box title","")
$autoitx.send("test_user")
[etc.]

Tried the above, and got "test_user" written to the username box.

VBScript also has some send keys functionality though, but I don't know
if it can change the "active window focus" like autoit can.

Yes, VBScript can. WshShell.AppActivate.

--
Don Jones
Windows PowerShell MVP
Founder: www.ScriptingAnswers.com
Co-Author: "Windows PowerShell: TFM"

"Marco Shaw" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Is it something you just need to run on your local computer to automate
>> something? I wonder if you can use the AutoIt
>> (http://www.autoitscript.com/) COM interface to do this...
>
> Yup, sure looks like it can be done:
>
> [start IE here with the com object or whatever to the proper page]
> $autoitx=new-object -com autoitx3.control
> $autoitx.winactivate("some dialog box title","")
> $autoitx.send("test_user")
> [etc.]
>
> Tried the above, and got "test_user" written to the username box.
>
> VBScript also has some send keys functionality though, but I don't know if
> it can change the "active window focus" like autoit can.

You can't, at least not using what's built into PowerShell. It doesn't have
any way of activating that GUI dialog box and sending keystrokes to it.

--
Don Jones
Windows PowerShell MVP
Founder: www.ScriptingAnswers.com
Co-Author: "Windows PowerShell: TFM"

"Vlince" <Vlince@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> In powershell, how can I pass the credentials to a authenticaiton window
> of
> a web site.
>
> Assuming I wish to nagivate to www.yahoo.com/admin and I get prompted for
> the network username and password, how can I provide these two fields with
> the proper value from PowerShell without being prompted for the dialog
> window.
>
> I know I'll have to save the password in some secure file but for now I
> just
> want to know if its fesable.
>
> Thanks in advance
>