Re: Integrated Windows Authentication & Mac Compatibility

From: sunshine (anonymous_at_devdex.com)
Date: 10/13/03 

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:33:55 -0700

> I suppose you could have the first page that people see
> be a script page with anonymous authentication that
> inspects the client type and send windows users to one
> virtual site instance that uses windows integrated, and
> then send Mac users to antother virtual site that points
> to the exact same physical directory, but is set to use
> basic authentication instead.

I think this is a great idea but then it will give you a big drawback -
there will be two different URLs for same pages, right? For example,
accessing http://site.com/page.aspx will redirect mac users to
http://site.com/mac/page.aspx (after basic auth) and windows users to
http://site.com/win/page.aspx (after integrated auth). Even though they
are pointing to the same page, URLs are different and this might confuse
users. Does anyone know any alternative way?

> And you'd want to consider using an SSL certificate if
> you wanted to encrypt the authentication to protect
> against sniffing,

Our site is Intranet, so sniffing can only occur within the network,
right?

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