Authenticate user in a url

There is a username/passowrd associated with a client to use our website url(https) and send data.It is not a web service and it is a web page(aspx) to recieve the data. What would be the best way to authenticate it? Should the user be created in the server machine and gets validated against it开发者_StackOverflow社区? or it is not a right thing to do and we should secure the url in a different way?

Thanks,

Valery

First of all, if it's a secure page, you should be using HTTPS. This will alleviate all of your external security issues as far as securing the URL.

As far as passing the username/password within the URL, there is specific, defined protocol for that...

https://username:password@www.example.com