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How to capture an authentication form.

Using the capture tools

The process of capturing an authentication form in order to create a new site, may be started by different means:

• The FireWebSSO toolbar
• The FireWebSSO context menu
• The FireWebSSO Tools menu
• The Capture icon tool in the firefox URL-bar
• The Auto-Capture tool

The FireWebSSO toolbar

By default, when the firewesso.xpi addon is installed, the FireWebSSO toolbar is displayed as a custom tool-bar of Firefox.

This is the more convenient way to access the FireWebSSO features.

Step by step capturing

• Step 1: click on the icon to capture the URL of the current web page.
• Step 2: the toolbar capture wizard is opened and displays the icons featuring the fields capture of the authentication form.
• Step 3: click on the icon to initiate the capture of the login field.
• Step 4: click on the login field: the border of the field should become colored.
• Step 5: click on the icon to capture the password field.
• Step 6: click on the password field: the border of the field should become colored.
• Step 7: click on the icon to capture the submit button.
• Step 8: click on the submit button: the borders of the button and the form should become colored:
• Step 9: click on the icon to validate your capture and send it securely to the FireWebSSO server.

Take a tour to the screencast section to see a capture sequence in action.

The FireWebSSO context menu

The context menu provides another way to capture a form. All the actions (capture URL/login/password...) are available in the context menu of the HTML page :

The FireWebSSO Tools menu

The FireWebSSO tools menu is accessible from the main Tools menu of Firefox. This menu can also be dropped in the customizable tool-bar pallette of FireFox:

The Capture icon tool in the firefox URL-bar

The navigation url-bar contains the icon and allows to start the capture sequence even if the FireWebSSO toolbar is hidden.