Http(s)://username:password@server/resource.ext

Automatic login from intranets

Internet Explorer versions 3.0 and later support the following syntax for HTTP or HTTPS URLs:

http(s)://username:password@server/resource.ext

After the patch from Microsoft this week this standard is no longer supported!!

Is the best solution to change to session-based authenticaion? and have a URL like

http://domain.com/names.nsf?login&username=john&password=john123&redirectto=/home.nsf

Anyone else having another solution ?