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		<title>Tweaking Firefox: Disable login dialog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to visit a webpage which is password protected, you can skip the authentication screen by placing your username and password directly into the url like http://user:pass@www.eek.be .
If you want to log in like this, Firefox will show you a dialog where you have to confirm that you want to login directly into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://dev.eek.be/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/firefox_medium-150x150.png" alt="firefox_medium" title="firefox_medium" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-165" />If you want to visit a webpage which is password protected, you can skip the authentication screen by placing your username and password directly into the url like http://user:pass@www.eek.be .</p>
<p>If you want to log in like this, Firefox will show you a dialog where you have to confirm that you want to login directly into the website.</p>
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<p>This is done for some securityreasons because it&#8217;s possible, like the dialog says, to trick a user to the wrong site.<br />
Take for instance the following url:</p>
<p>http://www.eek.be&#038;login:password@example.com/badsite</p>
<p>This url looks perfectly valid but if you have a good look at it, you will see that the url is not one of eek.be but one of example.com. So when a user clicks this link, it will be redirected to a page he didn&#8217;t expected or worse, a site that looks like the page he thinks he expects which asks him for his creditcard/username/password/&#8230;</p>
<p>So this built in security in Firefox is a very good case.<br />
But in some cases, you just want to login to a site without that annoying alertbox. Luckily, In firefox, it&#8217;s possible to configure this option.<br />
Go to the options in Firefox by surfing to:</p>
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about:config
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<p>You should get a warning but you can proceed without any concerns.</p>
<p>Now you have to rightclick inside the optionsscreen and choose new->integer<br />
A popup shows up and you have to fill in the optionsname</p>
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network.http.phishy-userpass-length
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<img src="http://dev.eek.be/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/phisy.png" alt="phisy" title="phisy" width="396" height="168" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-160" /></p>
<p>secondly, you have to give a value to the option.<br />
In this case, the value means how many characters a login can have before the dialog appears. By default it&#8217;s 1 in Firefox. In this case I change it to 100 which is enough in most cases.<br />
If you want to disable it always, you have to set the integer to 255.</p>
<p><img src="http://dev.eek.be/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/integer.png" alt="integer" title="integer" width="395" height="165" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-161" /></p>
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