Enable Password URLs in Internet Explorer 8 (Windows 7, 64 Bit)

Have you ever received a link like the one below for a website where the user name and password is incorporated in to the URL?

Example: http://username:password@websiteaddress.com/

When clicked these URLs take you to a website and automatically log you in to it.

In older versions of Internet Explorer it used to just work, however in the IE7 and above Microsoft have disabled the feature for security reasons.

However this can be re-enabled if required by a simple registry fix.

Windows Server 2008 IIS7 HTTP Redirection

In IIS6 to redirect a virtual directory within a website to another URL, local or remote, was a nice and simple process. It was just a case of right clicking on the virtual directory, selecting properties and on the Directory Tab selecting “A Redirection to a URL” and entering the required address.

With the introduction of IIS7 in Windows Server 2008 this was published as an improved feature. So when asked to move a virtual directory, and forward all requests to the original address to the new URL I presumed this would be just as straight forward.

So first things first, HTTP Redirection is not included in the standard IIS7 setup, when you add it as a Role. So to start with using Server manager, add the Role Service to IIS (I will presume you know how to do this).