Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:08:14 08/31/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 12:02:03, Don Prohaska wrote:
>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.
This is an obvious flaw in IE security. I would certainly not trust a browser
with such a behaviour.
Christophe
> 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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