Adding Unrecognized Sites

How to add unrecognized web sites to ALPass

There are times when ALPass doesn't fill in the login & password for a specific site. The following demonstrates how you can manually fix the situation for any web site.

The root problem is that ALPass doesn't recognize the "name" of the login & password input boxes. The solution is to add a custom entry for the web site in the "UrlKeysUser.ini" file in the ALPass directory.

A custom entry looks like this:

[DOMAIN.COM]

ID=inputName

PWD=inputName

The first part ( [DOMAIN.COM] ) should be the top level domain (COM in this case) and the domain name (DOMAIN in the example) only. It should not generally include WWW or other subdomain, but may include a subdomain if you know that the site always uses that subdomain, e.g. MAIL.DOMAIN.COM.

The second part ( ID & PWD) should have the 'name' attribute of the inputs for the login/username (ID) and the password (PWD). In the example above, 'inputName' is the actual 'name' attribute on the web page that you login to.

An Example

The following web site does not work with ALPass by default. Adding the following entry to the UrlKeysUser.ini file will allow ALPass to work normally with it:

[EXAMPLE.COM]

ID=email

PWD=password1

UrlKeysUser.ini

You can open this file in any text editor like Notepad. It is located in the ALPass program directory (C:\Program Files\ESTsoft\ALPass).

Refer to the UrlKeys.ini file for many more examples.

Finding out the input names

To find out the input names for the login page of a web site you need to find it in the HTML of the web page. This is actually very easy even if you don't know HTML.

To get the HTML, right-click on the web page and choose "View Source" in Internet Explorer or "View Page Source" in Firefox. This will open a new window with the HTML in it.

To make it easier, press Ctrl+F to find some text near the input. Have a look at the following example login page:

Search for the "Sign In Name" text. You'll see something like this:

Just below that text, there's an 'input' tag. Inside there you can easily see the NAME="email" part. So, in the ALPass UrlKeysUser.ini file, the ID part should be "email" without the quotes.

The next thing to find would be the "Password" text:

Down a few lines from "Password", another input tag is a "PASSWORD" type of input. There you can see the name is "password1", so for ALPass, you'd have "PWD=password1".

Another Example

Some sites may have more complex names. For example:

Note that there are both 'name' and 'id' attributes and that they are different. Make sure to only use the 'name' attribute and not the 'id' attribute. For this example, the appropriate entry would be:

[ANOTHEREXAMPLE.COM]

ID=dnn:ctr:Signin:txtUsername

PWD=dnn:ctr:Signin:txtPassword

Adding those entries is as simple as typing them in then leaving a blank line. Please refer to the UrlKeys.ini file for more examples, but remember to add your custom entries to the UrlKeysUser.ini file.

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