Does your site have controlled access areas?

28 Jan 2003

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Many web sites require users to log-in to the website before some areas of the site can be accessed. When provided with appropriate access details, Sitemorse™ is able securely to examine every possible page option, even within secure and protected areas.

There are two types of authentication commonly used by web sites – http authentication and session-based authentication. Uniquely, Sitemorse™ can test either with equal speed and effectiveness.

With http authentication, the authentication method is always a username and password, which is remembered by the user’s web browser and sent with each page request.

With session-based authentication, the user fills in an on-line form to provide the authentication information required by the site, which in this case may be a username and password or additional or alternative values, this data being remembered by the server - not the browser.

This is one of the many options available to Sitemorse™ users.

Sitemorse™ requires no software to be downloaded, either for the web server or onto your computer, and requires no technical skills to operate – testing the average website is completed in about 20 minutes.