[thelist] secure/insecure elements

[Erik Mattheis]

That's not what's happening though ... user logs into
http://domain/protected/ tools around a while and then hits a page
that requests the login/pass several times.

And again, this only happens in Mac IE 5 ... IE Win never, and any NS
never ... just Mac IE 5.

>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/

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- Erik Mattheis

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