I had a question last week from a great customer that is looking to build some custom .Net apps that enable users to jump from the app to the BIP interface with a click. The fly in the ointment, no single sign on (SSO) servers in sight! Day-um!
Some messing with the BIP login and some knowledge of the underlying jsp files that are actually getting called i.e. http://server:port/xmlpserver is actually resolving to http://server:port/xmlpserver/login.jsp. Then some use of the IE/FF Developer tools to find the appropriate names for the user name and password fields on the login page and I came up with:
http://server:port/xmlpserver/login.jsp?id=<<username>>&passwd=<<password>>
for instance
http://localhost:7001/xmlpserver/login.jsp?id=tdexter&passwd=bipdex
It worked! Sometimes, I even amaze myself at my detective (read 'hacking') abilities :0)