I believe this is not possible, but someone I know insisted that it works. I don't even know what parameters to try, and I haven't found this documented anywhere.
I tried http://myserver.com/~user=username&password=mypassword but it doesn't work.
Can you confirm that it's not in fact possible to pass the user/pass via HTTP parameters (GET or POST)?
Best Answer
It is indeed not possible to pass the username and password via query parameters in standard HTTP auth. Instead, you use a special URL format, like this:
http://username:password@example.com/-- this sends the credentials in the standard HTTP "Authorization" header.It's possible that whoever you were speaking to was thinking of a custom module or code that looked at the query parameters and verified the credentials. This isn't standard HTTP auth, though, it's an application-specific thing.