Author: Don Prohaska
Date: 09:02:03 08/30/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 11:52:48, Heiner Marxen wrote: >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. When I use Netscape, I always have to put in password and user name after I boot computer or browser. If I use the Internet Explorer the user name and password always shows and I don't have to put it in, whether I reboot or not. I did nothing to have this happen. It just does it. Since I mostly use Netscape, I wish that would happen too, but I don't know how. Don P > >Heiner
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