Thats odd, I was about to post the exact same obscure question for a somewhat different reason. I recently purchased a a PalmV with a wireless (OmniSky) modem and I want to make a palm clipping app for this BBS. This allows us gadget freaks to read it anywhere and because it would be PQA based I can strip out unnecesary formating and graphics for reasonable download times. Unfortunately, dealing with cookies with a PQA would be more work that I really want to put forth so I was trying to find a way to pass the user name and password on the http:// line.

As close as I can tell the query string you show will only work with the main login page. After that the BBS sends back an encoded version of your password. To determine that password you should be able to set your web browser to prompt you before accepting cookies and then enter the Empeg BBS site. You will get a cookie passed to you with "Password=jibberish" in it. The jibberish is apparently an encoded version of your password. You should be able to pass that version of your password and your original username to any page on the BBS (in the query string like you mentioned) and get access to that page. Note that I have not actually tried this.

Unfortunately this still complicates makeing a PQA because I still would have to implement the ability to receive and parse cookies on the PQA proxy site. Oh well, maybe someday when I have a little free time.

-Mike