You can prevent the username and password from being displayed in the URL by having your form use method=post instead of method=get. If you're passing the username and/or password between scripts, you'll then need to use either hidden input fields or cookies instead of building a URL with a query from scratch.

Encrypting is another story. You can't really tell browsers to encrypt the password before sending it to you (short of writing a Java script that does it, or something like that), but you can ensure that the post/get data is sent securely by building your website on an SSL secured web server. You should ask your web hosting provider for information about SSL. Or if you're doing it yourself, some of the easier answers are Apache_SSL and Apache with mod_ssl.

Alan

In reply to Re: Encrypting or Hiding Certain Info in a URL by ferrency
in thread Encrypting or Hiding Certain Info in a URL by Kiko

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