I'm coming from the Admin/infrastructure sharepoint space with little development exp with the sps/wss obj model.

One of our application developer managers asked me the question if its possible to pull in variables into urls to pass data on to applications. We have SPS2003/AD/Shared Services/WSS

Here is what I was asked (ill do my best):

For example:
- My ntuser name is jsmith
- My cost code is 004
- My department# is 123
- and my Employee number is 678

We want a URL on a sharepoint page that points to a web application that our users use. However, the URL is built with variables that is read either from the user profile, ad attributes, etc.

Is there a way to customize the URL so when I click on it, it can pass attribute values as arguments to my application login? so it looks like this:

https://login.steris.com/app22&ntusername=jsmith&costcode=004&dept=123&empno=678

So, for each user that clicks the URL it includes these arguments...

Excuse my layman description, but if anyone knows where I am going with this and can pass on a whitepaper or some sample code I would GREATLY appreciate it.