Auto Login to External Applications

Under Portal Administer tab -> Login Server Administration -> Administer
External Application -> Added External Application, I followed the example to
add an external application with "Apllication Name", "Login URL", "User Nmae/ID
Field Name", "Password Field Name" and selected "Authentication Method".
Although I have let Portal to remember my username and password on the first
time accessing the external apps, I still have to re-type my username and
password again for that web external apps. It seems that the username and
password are not passed by Portal to the external apps, although it works with Yahoo. Should it work with every external apps?
http://diary1.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nscal/calendar.cgi
The source is as follows:
=======================================================
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Calendar Express Login</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#0000ff"
BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<form action="/cgi-bin/nscal/login.cgi" method="post">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="img_path" value="/nscal/images/">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="cgi_path" value="/cgi-bin/nscal/">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="date" value="2002/3/25">
<CENTER>
<P>
<TABLE BORDER="1" BORDERCOLOR="#000000" BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<TR>
<TD>
<TABLE CELLPADDING="3" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0">
<TR>
<TD COLSPAN="2">
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR VALIGN="center">
<TD>
<IMG src="/nscal/images/english/splash_name.gif">
</TD>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<TD ALIGN="right">
<IMG
SRC="/nscal/images/english/logo_small.gif" BORDER="0" ALT="About Netscape.
Calendar Express 3.5"></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="center">
<TABLE BORDER="0">
<TR>
<TD COLSPAN="2">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR ALIGN="left">
<TD ALIGN="right">
</TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="server" VALUE="diary1.liv.ac.uk,10000">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR ALIGN="left">
<TD ALIGN="right">
</TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="language" VALUE="english">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="right">
<FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="geneva, arial, lucida sans, helvetica">Name</FONT>
</TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="srch_query" SIZE="20" MAXLENGTH="128" VALUE="">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR ALIGN="left">
<TD ALIGN="right">
<FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="geneva, arial, lucida sans, helvetica">Password
</FONT></TD>
<TD>
<INPUT TYPE="password" NAME="password" MAXLENGTH="15" SIZE="20">
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<TR>
<TD COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#e0e0e0">
<CENTER>
<INPUT type="submit" NAME="ok" value="Login">
<INPUT type="submit" NAME="help" value="Help">
</CENTER>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</TR>
</TD>
</TABLE>
</CENTER>
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
=============================================================================
The followings are the fields and values I used for the config:
User Name/ID Field Name: srch_query
Password Field Name: password
Authentication Method: post
Additional field:
img_path /nscal/images/
cgi_path /cgi-bin/nscal/
server diary1.liv.ac.uk,10000
language english
date none
Please help. I created a Tar in Metalink, but couldn't get enough help.
Thank you
Zhuang

Under additional fields you also need to specify ok=Login. (This parameter is passed when the user clicks the the login button.) Peter
Thank you for the reply. After putting one more additional field ok=Login, the result is still the same. Any more suggestion I could try out?
Thank you
Zhuang

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