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Review the Login Form
By reviewing the login page at www.siebel.com, you can determine the target URL of the Action attribute and the required arguments that are being passed to the Web application. The login page at www.siebel.com contains the following
<form>
tag and<input>
tags:<form action="/index.shtm" method="POST" name="frmPassLogin" onsubmit="return logincheck();">
<input TYPE="TEXT" NAME="SearchString" SIZE="18" MAXLENGTH="100" VALUE= ""
<input type="hidden" value="All" name="sc">
<input type="hidden" value="ON" name="FreeText">
<input type="image" src="/images/nav/button/bttn_form_arrow.gif" NAME="Action" border="0"/ alt="Submit Search"></td>
<input type="text" name="username" size="18">
<input type="password" name="password" size="18">
<input type="image" src="/images/nav/button/bttn_form_arrow.gif" border="0" name='login' />
<input type="checkbox" name="remember" checked/> <span class="bdDkGray">Remember my Login<br></span
From the
action
attribute of the form tag you can determine that the target URL is relative to the root of the login page's URL. Therefore the target URL is:You can also determine that the
method
attribute of the form tag is post:After reviewing the
<input>
tags, you can determine that the required arguments are:NOTE: Notice that not all input fields are necessary for login.
For more information about reviewing login forms, see Determining the Login Requirements.
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Siebel Portal Framework Guide Published: 09 September 2004 |