Erik Mattheis <gozz at gozz.com> wrote: > When requiring basic authentication for a directory (IIS 5), IE 5 Mac > sometimes asks for the login multiple times as the page loads and it > really irritates me ... I haven't noticed this with any other browser > ... why does this happen? My guess is that it asks you for the password for a subdirectory first, eg. http://www.example.com/images/wibble.gif when you authenticate here, most browsers will not pass that authentication to any object that is not a child of http://www.example.com/images/ so if you then have to fetch a password-protected object from, eg. http://www.example.com/pages/frame.html the browser will prompt for the password again, for that directory. To avoid this, make the user log in to a file in the root directory of your site before attempting to access any protected files. -- Andrew Clover mailto:and at doxdesk.com http://and.doxdesk.com/