Hi all,

I am trying to work in a PowerShell script to automate some tasks that 
requires to connect to a Web Site, I am trying this creating a com object for 
IE and connecting to the site, in the case when I have form authentication I 
was able to pass the user and password, login and execute the action, but now 
I am dealing with a web site that use Basic authentication witch at the end 
it is a dialog window where I have to provide username and password.

My code is just like this:

$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.visible = $true
$ie.navigate($URI)

After those line I have to provide the logon credentials and the do my 
stuff, I has not been able to find a way to pass credential so far.

In the case of form authentication I using the following code witch it works 
(but this is not the case on basic authentication):

$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.visible = $true
$ie.navigate($URI)
$doc = $ie.Document
$user = $doc.getElementByID("TextBoxLoginID")
$user.value = "USERNAME"
$pass = $doc.getElementByID("TextBoxPW")
$pass.value  = "PASSWORD"
$Logon = $doc.getElementByID("ButtonLogin")
$Logon.click()

Does anybody know how should I handle this dialog Window and pass the 
username and password? Is there anyway to pass the keystrokes in this case?

Thanks,

Zareh

Hi Zareh,

could it be a way to overcome this issue doing the following?:

First: Determine the resulting url after GUI authentication.
then use the following code:
$cred = New Net.NetworkCredential( <username>,<password> )
$cc = New Net.CredentialCache
$url = '<resulting URL-String after GUI-Authentication>'
$authSchema = 'Basic'
$cc.Add( $url, $authSchema, $cred)
$wc = New Net.WebClient
$wc.Credentials = $cc
$result = $wc.DownloadString( $url )

the $result contains the html sourcetext and could be evaluated with the 
means of regular expressions for instance.

this is a different approach than you did originally, so I'm not sure if 
this is helpfull for you.
Reinhard

"Zareh" wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to work in a PowerShell script to automate some tasks that 
> requires to connect to a Web Site, I am trying this creating a com object for 
> IE and connecting to the site, in the case when I have form authentication I 
> was able to pass the user and password, login and execute the action, but now 
> I am dealing with a web site that use Basic authentication witch at the end 
> it is a dialog window where I have to provide username and password.
> 
> My code is just like this:
> 
> $ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
> $ie.visible = $true
> $ie.navigate($URI)
> 
> After those line I have to provide the logon credentials and the do my 
> stuff, I has not been able to find a way to pass credential so far.
> 
> In the case of form authentication I using the following code witch it works 
> (but this is not the case on basic authentication):
> 
> $ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
> $ie.visible = $true
> $ie.navigate($URI)
> $doc = $ie.Document
> $user = $doc.getElementByID("TextBoxLoginID")
> $user.value = "USERNAME"
> $pass = $doc.getElementByID("TextBoxPW")
> $pass.value  = "PASSWORD"
> $Logon = $doc.getElementByID("ButtonLogin")
> $Logon.click()
> 
> Does anybody know how should I handle this dialog Window and pass the 
> username and password? Is there anyway to pass the keystrokes in this case?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Zareh
>