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This is more for me to remember it, as I’m guessing everyone else knows about this already. If you have a web or FTP site that you need to link someone to, but that site requires a user name and password, you can embed that information in the url as such:
http://userid:password@www.anywhere.com/
ftp://userid:password@ftp.anywhere.com/
Thanks so much for this help. I’m a librarian trying to give
students access to journals. We’ve legitimately subscribed, but
publishers’ won’t allow IP access and if I can do this I can
allow students to login to my campus system and access journals
their library subscribes to for the first time for some hard-to-get
titles. I really appreciate the example here.
Glad to be of help!