Useful patch for IE

[rejetto]

for those of you who like addresses like http://user:pasword@server/
you may know, in 2004 microsoft decided to disable this feature in Internet Explorer.
I use Opera, so i never cared that much about it, so only today I saw an easy workaround
I'm posting here because this is a handy feature in HFS (copy url with password).

MANUAL SOLUTION
edit your registry (start -> run -> regedit)
edit/create the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

then edit/create these values
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000
"explorer.exe"=dword:00000000


AUTOMATIC SOLUTION
run the attached file.
i had to zip it because the forum doesn't accept this file format.
you can see yourself the file content, it is

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl]

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

that will just do the job for you.

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[BrianP]

Thanks for the tip rejetto.

[~GeeS~]

I still do not like the user:pass@server command for security reasons.
Some years ago it was my first "hack" to obtain a user:pass of a site: I found easily it in the public logs of a (proxy)server, because another lazy user used this command instead of entering the credentials in the authorization box. OK, public logs are almost gone these days, but anyway.
See also my comments in thread http://www.rejetto.com/forum/index.php?topic=3621.0