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Accessing secured web sites
Accessing secured web sites
You might find that some of the web sites you are trying to access are secured
and require authentication to access them.
Web Connect allows you to set up an Internet query so that it can automatically
access most secured web sites, and allows you to refresh query reports by simply
entering a password.
The way you set this up depends on the design of the secured web page you are
trying to access. If the web site uses forms to acquire security data from
customers, then Web Connect needs to be able to parse the form data before it
can process it.
To allow you to access both secured and non-secured web sites, Web Connect
provides the following authentication options:
• No Authentication: This is the default selection, for web pages that do not
require any authentication.
• Basic Authentication: This is for standard web pages that require
authentication data, but that do not use forms.
• Form Authentication: This is for web pages that require authentication, but
that are presented as forms.
The following sections explain how to set up your Internet queries to work with
secured web sites, using both basic and form authentication.
Querying a page using Basic Authentication
This section explains how to set up Web Connect to access a web page that
requires authentication data (but that does not use forms). Once you have set up
this query authentication, you will be asked to enter your username and
password when you run the query for the first time. However, after entering this
authentication data once, you will not be required to enter it again during the
current session.
Whenever you start a new session, you will need to enter your username and
password again.
