[H-GEN] Authentication problems

Martin Pool mbp at pharos.com.au
Mon Oct 27 02:33:39 EST 1997


On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Byron Ellacott wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Sid Young wrote:
> 
> > Try:   http://www.synaptic.com.au/java/
> > And tell me what you get with each Browser.
> > The account name is "test" and the password is "test"
> Under Lynx it gave me an error about authentication, thought for a while,
> retried, asked for a username and password, then displayed a form.  I hate
> lynx when it starts displaying messages and freezing .. but it works :)

It does that because the only way a browser knows that the page is
protected is that it gets a 401_unauthorized when it tries without
authentication. 

--
Martin

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