vc++ winsock detect when a login has been done

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I'm writting an application that would save user and password logins on the net.

I would like to do like Firefox Mozilla when detects a login and shows the possibility to save the user and password, and when the website is visited again, it restores user and password saved.

Anyone knows how Mozilla does that?

For the moment I've written a sniffer program that creates a socket in SOCK_RCVALL so I can view all the traffic and detect when a connection is done with SYN flag.

After a deep searching, I can't find anything similar..

Any idea on how to do this?
Is winsock the right way or do I have to change completely the way?

Posted 15-Mar-11 9:18am

miqmago

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Firefox (and all the other popular browsers out there) use cookies (or a similar method) to remember your user name and password on certain sites,

now if you want to store this information on some server on the net you need to establish connection with that server and then send the data, you should also encrypt your data, since win sock will send it in plain text.

Posted 15-Mar-11 22:10pm

Kurt Degiorgio

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Dalek Dave 16-Mar-11 4:40am

Sage Advice.

miqmago 18-Mar-11 3:42am

Do you know if it is possible to send the info of a connection from a c++ app and then show in the browser the connection?
The idea is to do the same like Firefox and others that stores user name & password but outside the browser, and then come back the session to the browser.

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-15T12:03:00

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I'd try this search[^] - as the http protocol is built on top of tcp/ip. tcp/ip is what you get from winsock ...

I'd also look at RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol[^] for a better understanding of your task.

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Espen Harlinn

Posted 15-Mar-11 12:03pm

Espen Harlinn

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Dalek Dave 16-Mar-11 4:40am

Good Links.

Espen Harlinn 16-Mar-11 7:17am

Thanks Dalek!

miqmago 18-Mar-11 3:38am

Thanks, very good links!

Espen Harlinn 18-Mar-11 4:55am

Thank you, miqmago!