Webmail login from own page

[RFH Reseller: Shiven Rabadia]

Hi all,

Since the new webmail it's been difficult trying to get webmail login to work from a external page... it goes to the page but does not login, unless you were previously loged in then loged out then went to the page (keeping in the same browser window). Give it a try yourself to see what I mean.

website: www.silverstring.net
code in question:

 <form name="Form1" method="post" action="http://mail.silverstring.net/webmail/Login.aspx" id="Form1">
 <input name="hihTimeZone" id="hihTimeZone" type="hidden" />
 <input name="ddlLanguage" id="ddlLanguage" type="hidden" value="en-US" />
  <br><input name="txtLogin" type="text" id="txtLogin" style="WIDTH: 180px" />
  <br><input name="txtPassword" type="password" id="txtPassword" style="WIDTH: 180px" />
  <input type="image" src="./img/btn_login_orng.jpg" name="lnkLogin" value="Login" id="lnkLogin" />
 </form>

I striped the tables, etc from it so you can see the form code.

Any help would be great, thanks.

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

Could be due to it being a clever asp.net web app, I have quite a lot of experience of creating single sign on to external web apps.

I noticed that you did not post the viewstate. Something maybe required in the viewstate, they may have manually added something to the viewstate. If you google for viewstate decodeder or similiar you can see what is in the viewstate and decide whether you need to post it. What I would do is try posting it anyway.

Jim

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Hmmm - this is an odd one...

1) http://mail.domain.com/ redirects to http://mail.domain.com/webmail/ using standard HTTP redirects.

2) http://mail.domain.com/webmail/ redirects to http://mail.domain.com/webmail/Default.aspx using a standard HTTP POST, with this viewstate:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<viewstate>
  <Triplet>
    <String>1294917955</String>
  </Triplet>
</viewstate>

3) http://mail.domain.com/webmail/Default.aspx redirects to http://mail.domain.com/webmail/Login.aspx using standard HTTP redirects, returning this viewstate:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<viewstate>
  <Triplet>
    <String>-1170023072</String>
    <Triplet>
      <ArrayList>
        <Int32>3</Int32>
      </ArrayList>
      <ArrayList>
        <Triplet>
          <ArrayList>
            <Int32>3</Int32>
            <Int32>5</Int32>
            <Int32>6</Int32>
            <Int32>9</Int32>
            <Int32>10</Int32>
            <Int32>13</Int32>
            <Int32>14</Int32>
            <Int32>17</Int32>
            <Int32>20</Int32>
            <Int32>22</Int32>
          </ArrayList>
          <ArrayList>
            <Triplet>
              <Pair>
                <ArrayList>
                  <String>href</String>
                </ArrayList>
                <ArrayList>
                  <String>http://www.vircom.com</String>
                </ArrayList>
              </Pair>
              <ArrayList>
                <Int32>0</Int32>
              </ArrayList>
              <ArrayList>
                <Triplet>
                  <Pair>
                    <ArrayList>
                      <String>src</String>
                    </ArrayList>
                    <ArrayList>
                      <String>themes/Gray/images/LogoLogin.gif</String>
                    </ArrayList>
                  </Pair>
                </Triplet>
              </ArrayList>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Pair>
                <ArrayList>
                  <String>innerhtml</String>
                </ArrayList>
                <ArrayList>
                  <String>Modus &amp;copy; 2005</String>
                </ArrayList>
              </Pair>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Array>
                <String>   All rights reserved</String>
                <String>themes/Gray/images/</String>
                <String>
                </String>
                <String>Email Address:</String>
              </Array>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Pair>
                <Pair>
                  <ArrayList>
                    <String>ErrorMessage</String>
                  </ArrayList>
                  <ArrayList>
                    <String>Please enter your email address</String>
                  </ArrayList>
                </Pair>
              </Pair>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Array>
                <String>Password:</String>
              </Array>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Pair>
                <Pair>
                  <ArrayList>
                    <String>ErrorMessage</String>
                  </ArrayList>
                  <ArrayList>
                    <String>Please enter your password</String>
                  </ArrayList>
                </Pair>
              </Pair>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Array>
                <String>Language</String>
              </Array>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Pair>
                <Pair>
                  <ArrayList>
                    <String>Text</String>
                  </ArrayList>
                  <ArrayList>
                    <String>Login</String>
                  </ArrayList>
                </Pair>
                <Pair>
                  <ArrayList>
                    <String>onClick</String>
                  </ArrayList>
                  <ArrayList>
                    <String>javascript:showwait();</String>
                  </ArrayList>
                </Pair>
              </Pair>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Array>
                <String>Log me automatically on this computer.</String>
                <String>Security warning: Don't use this option if you share this machine with other people.</String>
              </Array>
            </Triplet>
            <Triplet>
              <Array>
                <String>Synchronizing mail, please wait</String>
              </Array>
            </Triplet>
          </ArrayList>
        </Triplet>
      </ArrayList>
    </Triplet>
    <ArrayList>
      <String>chkAutoLogon</String>
    </ArrayList>
  </Triplet>
</viewstate>

[RFH Reseller: Sol]

From Page 209 of the ModusMail manual:

Custom Login page or Portal Integration

You can create your own login page or insert the login form in your portal. Your login page
should include a form with the two following form fields:

<input type="text" name="txtLogin"/>
<input type="password" name="txtPassword"/>

The page's form action should be set to "Login.aspx" and the method set to "POST". Here's a simple Login page:

<html>
<body>
<form action="Login.aspx" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="txtLogin"/>
<input type="password" name="txtPassword"/>
<input type="submit" value="Login"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

If this doesn't work let me know and I'll re-check it with Vircom.

[RFH Reseller: Shiven Rabadia]

Thanks for that Sol... gave it a go but no joy, that way doesn't work either.

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

Hi,

I edited my post previoulsy but for some reason the change has been lost. When you click the submit button on the proper login page the button causes the .net client javascript library to copy the password and login to viewstate. It then causes a post back to the server. The server then tries to retrive info from viewstate. It fails and kindly tells you to p*** off.