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Jason
Jason

Reputation: 821

Passing a user and password in a clickable URI link securely

I have a device that allows for remote control using something like this:

https://gooduser:[email protected]/webcallback?foo=bar

My question is, can I some how send an encrypted user/password so that end-users can't pull the username and password and login to the device?

My issue here is that I need these to be clickable links to send remote commands.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 130

Answers (1)

MCSH
MCSH

Reputation: 395

Instead of putting your user nameand password in url, use HTML headers. Since you are calling https they will be encrypted. How you use it depends on your environment but using wget the command would be:

wget --user=gooduser --password=secretpassword https://www.example.com/webcallback?foo=bar

Upvotes: 2

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