Due popular demand....
This is how I do it.
Example is the NYTimes site which requires an access password. Screenshots are attached.
1)
Download Mozilla Phoenix. I use it instead of Internet Explorer because Mozilla displays the cookies in the same format like iSiloX.
2) Install Phoenix and start it. In it, open the
NY Times site. There, click on the
LogIn link. Enter your login information and make sure that " Remember my Member ID and password on this computer"
is checked (otherwise no cookie information is saved). Log in.
3) Now go to
Menu:Tools:Preferences and from there go to the
Privacy tab. Open the
cookie manager. See all the cookies whose "site" is "nytimes.com":
Quote:
nytimes.com spopunder
nytimes.com tpopunder
nytimes.com RMID
nytimes.com NYT_GR
nytimes.com NYT-S
nytimes.com RDB
nytimes.com nvt-d
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Keep the cookie manager open for a while. We will need it later in step 4.
Not all of these cookies are used to store your password. Some are used for tracking and advertisement purposes - we don't want these. How do I know which cookies are needed? What I usually do is to add *all* cookies of a particular site to iSiloX, and then delete one after the other, each time doing a new hotsync to see that the required cookies are still there. If the hotsync fails (prompt for login screen is displayed again), I know that I deleted one of the required cookies - so I put it back to iSiloX. I end up with only two nytimes.com cookies that are required for the password authentication:
nytimes.com NYT-S
nytimes.com RMID
Well, you might ask how to add cookies in general to iSiloX. Read on.
4. So you want to add the two cookies to iSiloX. Open iSiloX, create a new channel and go to the cookies tab. Make sure you check both permissions,
send cookie and
receive cookie. Then click on "Add Cookie..." With the Phoenix Cookie Manager still open, go to the first required cookie, nytimes.com NYT-S. Copy the information there to your iSiloX Cookie entries (field "information" in Phoenix corresponds to field "value" in iSiloX). Do the same thing for the second require cookie, nytimes.com RMID. See attached screendumps for examples.
Thats it. Do it a few times and it will go all automatically.