Re: Mac v. NT
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16415
interpreted = N
texte = At 06:54 PM 3/5/98 -0800, Grant Hulbert wrote: >>Just curious why the protect tag with Mac and Webcatalog will display a >>browser password box, allow you to enter, then cache that password while >>your browser is open not requiring you to enter it again, and NT w/ Netscape >>server is in an HTML for and requires me to enter my username and password >>each time I enter a page with a [protect] tag. Or do I need to re-write my >>files to cary that variable from page to page? > >WebSite does not have this restriction, but IIS does. If you are using IIS, you will need to rewrite your templates to propagate the passwords. The reason is that we do not want to break IIS' security scheme which is based on local filesystem users/passwords and not arbitrary record-level passwords like WebCatalog's.Be warned that propagate means that the passwords are passed through urls/forms and are then stored in the caches, registries, and histories of your user's browsers. Anyone with access to that machine can go after this user provides the right authentication, view the cache or other parts where info is stored, and login to the system.Aloha, Olin ---------------------------------------------------------------- WORLDPOINT Olin Kealoha Lagon Director, Special Projects Manoa Innovation Center 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 170 Honolulu, HI 96822 Telephone (808)539-3939 Fax (808)539-3943 Direct (808)539-3932
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At 06:54 PM 3/5/98 -0800, Grant Hulbert wrote: >>Just curious why the protect tag with Mac and Webcatalog will display a >>browser password box, allow you to enter, then cache that password while >>your browser is open not requiring you to enter it again, and NT w/ Netscape >>server is in an HTML for and requires me to enter my username and password >>each time I enter a page with a [protect] tag. Or do I need to re-write my >>files to cary that variable from page to page? > >WebSite does not have this restriction, but IIS does. If you are using IIS, you will need to rewrite your templates to propagate the passwords. The reason is that we do not want to break IIS' security scheme which is based on local filesystem users/passwords and not arbitrary record-level passwords like WebCatalog's.Be warned that propagate means that the passwords are passed through urls/forms and are then stored in the caches, registries, and histories of your user's browsers. Anyone with access to that machine can go after this user provides the right authentication, view the cache or other parts where info is stored, and login to the system.Aloha, Olin ---------------------------------------------------------------- WORLDPOINT Olin Kealoha Lagon Director, Special Projects Manoa Innovation Center 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 170 Honolulu, HI 96822 Telephone (808)539-3939 Fax (808)539-3943 Direct (808)539-3932
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