I found an old discussion in the forums describing how to have users login from an external HTML page. I'm using the following code (except obviously "mysite" is our URL)
<form action="https://mysite/login/index.php" method="post" name="form" id="form">
<p> <font color="#555" size="2"><strong>Username</strong></font>
<input name="username" type="text" id="username" size="15">
<br>
<font color="#555" size="2"><strong>Password</strong></font>
<input name="textfield" type="password" size="15">
<br>
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Login">
</p>
</form>
I tested it and it keeps routing me to the login/index.php page with the message that it's an invalid login, even though it isn't - I can login fine from that page.
Am I running into problems because we're on a secure server? Is there another way I should be doing this? Also, is this method secure? I just don't want campus computer security to jump all over me for doing something that wasn't kosher.