title: Is it possible to enable HTTP basic authentication in Internet Explorer?
body: <p>A URL such as <code>http://username:password@example.com/</code> does not work in Internet Explorer, as explained in the Microsoft Knowledgebase article “<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Internet Explorer does not support user names and passwords in Web site addresses</a>”. I can’t find a proper workaround for this. I want just a simple link in a HTML document which works.</p>
  
  <h3>The purpose of the exercise:</h3>
  
  <p>We have a website, with fairly secure cookie-based login. We have standard stats packages (Webalizer and AWStats) which use HTTP authentication. I want to give the administrator of the site a quick link to the stats. The link, which includes the password, will be available only to a logged in administrator. It’s no great security risk.</p>