Re: BASIC authentication Issues with IE - Part II - Solved but WHY?
From: Ken Schaefer (kenREMOVE_at_THISadOpenStatic.com)
Date: 03/26/04
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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:09:57 +1100
a) If different IE windows are running in separate IExplore.exe processes,
they will not share credential information. Check using Task Manager, and
Process Explorer etc to see what's going on.
b) Some of the stuff you have posted is a little incoherent. I suggest you
download Ethereal (www.ethereal.com), and put a trace on the network to see
what's going on.
c) What should happen: if you authenticate to a website, then IE should
continue to send your username/password to the website until the browser is
closed -or- the website says that those credentials are not acceptable. Some
users check the "remember password" option, but forget that they did so.
Cheers
Ken
"hector" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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: This is so odd.
:
: I can see why this problem was not usually seen by others. On my personal
: machine, I have a D:\HOMEPAGE.HTM that I use as a personal list of URLS
: customized for me. In it, I have a URL that says:
:
: Support Site
:
: And when I visit my site and log in using Basic Authentication, I can
right
: click a LINK to open a new window.
:
: Everything is cool until I close the second window, at which point any
: further clicking on the main window will require a new basic
authentication
: login.
:
: Now the weird thing!
:
: If I by pass my local machine homepage menu and simply type the
: http://www.winserver.com in the IE address bar, this entire problem goes
: away! I can open second windows at the authenticated site with NO
problem
: of losing the credentials!
:
: Again, my IE is setup so that the default HOME page is d:\homepage.htm and
I
: use this page as a menu for my custom links among other informative things
I
: add to it.
:
: If I click the url from the homepage menu, I run into the browser
: authentication problem when second windows are open from the authenticated
: site.
:
: But if I directly use the URL at the IE address bar, no problem. You don't
: lose basic authentication!
:
: Go figure!
:
: Am I seeing things?
:
: Can you repeat this? Just create a simple "c:\homepage.htm" with a few
: links in it to an authenticated site, then login via this link and then
open
: and close a window to see if you have to login again. Then try it
directly
: from the address bar.
:
: -- hector
:
:
: "hector" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
: news:uYt0k6wEEHA.2088@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
: >
: > This is the chronological history as we experienced it:
: >
: > Originally, the only IE issue we had was......
: >
: > 1) Intermittently, a basic authenticated session is lost when a user
: > finishes a download. The next URL clicked requires a re-login.
: >
: > 2) Intermittently, a basic authenticated session is lost when a user
: closes
: > a secondary popup window. The next URL clicked requires a re-login.
: >
: > ...
: >
: > But now we are about to release a new version of Web Server with new
HTML
: > pages layouts and I see #1 and #2 constantly.
: >
: > All we did was add a HELP button to our html pages and when you close
the
: > HELP window, the Basic Authentication is lost. The user has to relogin
: > again! It is 100% repeatable!
: >
: > What gives? What's going on? I am throwing my hands up. You simply
: can't
: > kept up with Microsoft and their constantly "design behavior" changes.
: >
: > What is the basic rules now with IE's Basic Authentication behavior?
: >
: > thanks for any input you can provide
: >
: > Hector
: >
: >
: >
: >
:
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