Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 08:52:48 08/30/00
Go up one level in this thread
On August 29, 2000 at 23:23:28, stuart taylor wrote:
>On August 29, 2000 at 23:10:50, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On August 29, 2000 at 22:38:07, Tim Mirabile wrote:
>>
>>>Looks like a handful of people are having this problem. What are your web
>>>browser versions and operating systems? Maybe you have something in common.
>>>
>>>It is normal operation for the web server to request your username and password
>>>every time you access a page within the protected area. Your browser should ask
>>>for the login only once and is then supposed to remember it and supply it every
>>>time you click on a link.
>>
>>Ok, I definitly _don't_ have the problem. So if it'll somehow narrow it down at
>>all, I use Netscape v4.7, and I'm one of those bastards with a cable connection.
>> So probably all people using the same basic setup are not having the problems.
>>
>>This may have just been useless info though.
>>
>>Pete
>
>I use netscape 4.5 and I have to insert username and password each time I
^^^^^^^^^^^
>restart my computer. But I suppose that if I let things get copied to my hard
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>disk, and history files etc. It might stay.
>S.Taylor
That is the expected behaviour AFAIK.
The browser is not expected to copy the authorization data to disk.
When the browser is restarted (or even the computer) the data is gone.
That is a general security issue.
However, there is a way to stuff username and password into the URL,
explicitly. I do not exactly remember the details... together with some
delimiting special chars they are inserted after the // and before the hostname.
You could them bookmark the extended URL, and would not have to type in
username and password ever again.
Of course, no one else should be able to see this bookmarked URL...
for obvious reasons.
May be someone can fill in the details.
Heiner
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.