Microsoft disables user:[email protected] causing Invalid Syntax Error

[hostultra]

Just a notice to everyone
Microsoft seems to have disabled the http://user:[email protected]/ thing in the latest patch for internet explorer.

So if your login forms send your customers to an url like that they will get a invalid syntax error!

It took me ages to track this problem down.
Many customers were complaining to me about getting this error and could find no problem.
Today I updated my own PC with windows update, downloaded the IE service pack patch and i noticed it.

 

[hostultra]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;834489

I know me, and alot of other hosts i have seen have a login box on their website which forwards to http://user:[email protected]:2082/ so this maybe of help to those confused of the problem.

 

[Infopro]

You can shut this off by adding a registry entry.

To disable the new default behavior in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, create iexplore.exe and explorer.exe DWORD values in one of the following registry keys and set their value data to 0:


For all users:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microso
ft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATUR
E_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

For the current user only:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsof
t\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATUR
E_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

 

[Infopro]

LOL, I posted 3 minutes too slow...

 

[hostultra]

Having customers edit a registry entry to login is not a good solution.

Is there any other way to redirect the browser into cpanel without asking for user/pass other then this method which doesnt work by default anymore.

 

[Infopro]

Originally posted by hostultra
Having customers edit a registry entry to login is not a good solution.

Is there any other way to redirect the browser into cpanel without asking for user/pass other then this method which doesnt work by default anymore.

Well its a security measure that I don't think the average user should skirt around. But if you wanted to help out your users I guess you could whip up a few registry patches and offer them to your clients. Of course you'll need to make one for each version of windows.

I don't see a way to "re direct" anyone as there's no page there to add a redirect to.

 

[hostultra]

No i dont think you understand.
I dont want my users to have to download a registry patch.
I want it to work by itself, the way it did before microsoft screwed with it.

Is there another way to send in the username/password, like a javascript or URL trick other then http://user:[email protected]

 

[Infopro]

I understood you the first time. The answer is no.
Tell them to use https and type in the password every time. We are talking security here. There is no easy way around being safe. (other than editing the registry)

 

[hostultra]

I have multiple servers with a login on my site.
The login form redirects them to their cpanel for the appropriate server, without using user:[email protected] it means the user will have to enter their username and password twice.
Once to find which server he is on, and another to login to the cpanel.

I cant belive microsoft would remove such a useful function just because a few people abused it for spoof sites.
At least a warning message would be better then disabling it completely.

 

[Infopro]

Your password should never be in plain view of anyone. This is a given.
Before, when you could login this way, your username and password were viewable on the bottom of your browser. So it's more than just some spoofed URLs.

Just change the login to a URL to get to the https URL and they can click that and login, it's not that tough..

 

[hostultra]

I created a work around :

<img border="0" width="0" height="0" src="http://user:[email protected]:2082/frontend/x/branding/top_01-sm_bg.gif">
<script language="JavaScript">self.location.href='http://server.com:2082/';</script>

 

[goodmove]

Originally posted by Infopro
Your password should never be in plain view of anyone. This is a given. Before, when you could login this way, your username and password were viewable on the bottom of your browser. So it's more than just some spoofed URLs.

Just change the login to a URL to get to the https URL and they can click that and login, it's not that tough..

Do you mean https://[email protected] works with the IE update?

 

[hostultra]

Originally posted by goodmove
Do you mean https://[email protected] works with the IE update?

no it doesnt.

 

[TogaDave]

Just got my first customer support ticket about this this morning. Just what I wanted to do today, sit around explaining to users why they get a syntax error when they try to check webmail from within cpanel... the fun never ends LOL!

 

[osfdeath]

Originally posted by hostultra
I created a work around :

<img border="0" width="0" height="0" src="http://user:[email protected]:2082/frontend/x/branding/top_01-sm_bg.gif">
<script language="JavaScript">self.location.href='http://server.com:2082/';</script> [/B]

That does not work - login dialog box still appears

 

[casey]

It looks like Nick is working on it, too:

+-------------------------------------------------------------+
Sun Feb 22 15:59:28 EST 2004
8.9.0-EDGE_35
---------------------------------------------------------------
support http cookie logins
---------------------------------------------------------------

 

[Dr. Bogger]

Originally posted by casey
It looks like Nick is working on it, too:

Is this feature available yet? if so, how do you make it work? lol.

I dont know too much about cookies yet lol.

 

[XPerties]

For those who use https://root:[email protected]:2083 and have downloaded the latest IE fix from MS you will notice it no longer works. You get an syntax error. Here is the fix to remove the block.


Copy and paste this into a text file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE]
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000
"explorer.exe"=dword:00000000

save the text file as:

Enable username&password in IE.reg

then click on the file, and choose yes to import it into your registry. This will disable the MS update.

 

[Infopro]

I think I posted that in the beginning of this thread..

 

[hostultra]

Originally posted by osfdeath
That does not work - login dialog box still appears

The login box will appear on those which have the microsoft patch, but will not appear if they do not have the patch.

it just avoids the horrible syntax error.