On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Rolf wrote:
> is it possible to explain why with proxy authentication enabled, when a site
> is visited that wishe sto run an applet, a dialog seeking user credentials is
> displayed befor ethe applet will run?
This happens if you are using a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) which does
not integrate with the browser properly, not sharing the proxy
authentication credentials with the browser.
> Is it meant (according to the protocols) to work like this?
How user agents (browsers etc) manages user credentials is completely
outside of the protocol. Authentication in the protocol is on a per
request basis (sessionless).
To avoid asking for the proxy password on each and every request the user
agent (browser) caches the login information and reuses the same
login+password on the next request automatically.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Apr 12 2005 - 04:00:16 MDT
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