I am developing a wiki to document a Windows application.
I don't want the resulting wiki to be available to all, so basically there will be two users, one for admin and one for read only viewing of the wiki from within our application.
Our application is written in Delphi. We have it sorted so that we launch a browser window with the relevant parameters set within the URL to get to the right part of the wiki but I am having real issues trying to get my head around the authentication options and how these might be automated so our application can login to the wiki when the browser window is launched with the relevant URL.
I am using PHP 5.3.28 CGI/FastCGI on a Windows 10 PC using IIS 10 to test/prove the configuration. We usually use Chrome as the browser.
I am told by my developers that we would use a URL in the form
http://username:password@ourwiki.co.uk, which should pass the username & password to the wiki.
Am I missing something, how can I achieve auto login through the URL from within our application?