POST to email forms

Anon

What I would like to do is create a simple input form for username and password, and a select box to choose difference email services.

Then I wanted to have the page submit to a PHP that would forward the correct login information to the correct website depending on what was selected.

Basically I wanted to create a page where you could login to both your Hotmail or Yahoo accounts from one form.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anon

posting your usernames and passwords via a web form is not encrypted(ie plaintext and can be snooped), and is not terribly safe (unless you work off of a secure server)

would be best to do it the hard way, i would think.
stuart

Anon

Is it possible to do however? I may move it onto a secure server, but in the meantime I would just liek to know how to do it.

Anon

what i would do is to locate the name of the script you send your password to for hotmail/yahoo/etc. (it will be in the page source somewhere), and look for any hidden variables that are passed as well.

you could do it in two pages easily, by selecting whichever account you want on one page, and a second submit button on the other that has the hidden variables filled in by a small script

then submit to hotmail or yahoo etc.

or you could set some variables in the url
www.somewhere.com/abc.php?username=user&password=mypass
but you can already see the BIG security problem there.

I still suggest the hard way - much safer.

Stuart

Anon

So you're saying that the user would have to click submit twice? I would like them to have to do it once. Sort of a singe sign on solution.

I've seen other pages do this before (like Hotmail's own authentication process) and I'm just trying to figure out how they did it. The email example is just a good test. I'm planning on working on the SSL later.

Right now that just complicates matters. That's why I want to pass the variables to a page that just forwards them to another page based on the user selection.

Thanks.