Login Form Settings

If the Web site accessed by this content source requires users to complete a form to access the site, specify the login form settings:

1. In the Login URL box, type the URL to the login form that needs to be completed.

2. In the Post URL box, type the URL to which this login form posts data. To find the URL, search the form's source HTML for the <FORM> tag; the ACTION attribute contains the URL to which the form posts.

3. Under Form Fields, specify the information needed to gain access to this site. To determine this information, you can either contact the person who wrote the form or search the form's source HTML for each <INPUT> tag and specify the tag information on this page:

• To add information for an <INPUT> tag:

1. Click Add.

2. In the Name box, type the text after "name=" from the <INPUT> tag. For example, if the form includes "<INPUT type="password" name="Password" size="10">, type Password.

3. In the Value box, type the text you would normally type in the form field. Using the example from step b, you would type the password needed to access the site.

• To remove a name/value pair, select the name/value and click .

• To select or clear all of the name/value pair check boxes, select or clear the box to the left of Name.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Content Source Editor:
• To create a new Web content source:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Content Source - WWW.
• To edit an existing Web content source:
1. Navigate to the Web content source you want to edit.
2. Click the Web content source name.
3. On the left, under Edit Object Settings, click Login Form Settings.