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To: InAndOut who wrote (1909)	2/15/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110642

Saving SI Login and Password: I don't think it flies in Netscape. It might under Explorer since I have seen where it will ask people login in for the first time if they wish to save that login/password to be automatically saved for the next time. I know it saves it under a temporary 'cookie', so if you go out of the site, and come back later on in the same Netscape session, you're ok, and you don't have to retype it all, but for seperate sessions, I don't believe there is a way. For now. If I'm wrong, please correct me! Richard

To: InAndOut who wrote (1909)	2/15/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Steven Bowen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110642

"Does anyone know how to get Netscape to save your login/password for logging into SI?" Netscape won't save passwords. MSIE will. There is a way you can do it, but it can be dangerous. Edit the SI URL that you keep in your favorites or bookmarks or whatever Netscape calls them to include your username and password, such as; http://myname:mypassword@talk.techstocks.com If you store this URL, it should log you in automatically. The problem, if I understand it correctly, is that any website you subsequently visit outside of SI can store the URL from which you came, and could therefore steal your login info. I could, for instance, post a link to a homepage at Geocities, and if you clicked on it, I could learn your login info. You'd also have to be careful cutting and pasting SI URL's into your responses or you could post your login info into a response.