Testing a password protected website
Silktide can test websites protected by a username and password. The approach used depends on the nature of the password protection.
HTTP authentication
If a website uses HTTP authentication – a common but basic form of user authentication – then Silktide will detect this automatically and ask you for the username and password automatically when you first add the website.
If you were not prompted, or if you need to update your HTTP authentication settings, go to Settings > Website settings > Authentication.
Other types of authentication
Because of the way Silktide sees webpages, it is able to support almost any other form of authentication, including web forms and even JavaScript / AJAX powered authentication.
Currently logging in to sites in this way requires custom setup by one of our developers, and is only available to Silktide Monitor customers.
Please contact us to discuss setting up more advanced authentication.
See more
- Removing pop-ups, banners and more
- Comparing Sitebeam with Silktide
- Getting started with the accessibility toolbar
- Testing logged in areas of your website
- Which Silktide product am I using?
- How Silktide handles frames and iframes
- Setting competitors
- Scheduling automatic reports
- Searching for pages
- Excluding specific pages
- Exporting tables of results
- Exporting a report
- Adding your logo to Silktide
- What IP address and user agent does Silktide use?
- Limit how fast Silktide downloads a website
- Understanding rate-limited websites
- Enabling and disabling tests
- Adding a website
- How to choose keywords
- Moving from Sitebeam to Silktide
- Getting started
- Creating new users
- How pages are counted
- How Silktide sees websites