Providing Access to Web Content Through a Login Form
If the web site accessed by this content source requires
users to complete a form to access the site, you can specify the login
form settings on the Login Form Settings page of the Content Source
Editor.
- Open the Content Source Editor by creating a new web content
source or editing an existing one.
- Click the Login Form Settings page.
- In the Login URL box, type the URL
to the login form that needs to be completed.
- In the Post URL box, type the URL
to which this login form posts data.
To find the URL, search the form's source HTML for the <FORM>
tag; the ACTION attribute contains the URL to which the form posts.
- Under Form Fields, specify the information
needed to gain access to this site:
To determine this information, you can either contact the person
who wrote the form or search the form's source HTML for each <INPUT>
tag.
- To add information for an <INPUT> tag:
- Click
Add.
In the Name box, type the text after
"name=" from the <INPUT> tag.
For example, if the form includes
"<INPUT type="password" name="Password" size="10">, type Password.
In the Value box, type the text you
would normally type in the form field.
Using the example from
the previous step, you would type the password needed to access the
site.
To remove a name/value pair, select the name/value and
click 
.
To select or
clear all of the name/value pair boxes, select or clear the box to
the left of Name.
