Does this send the user name and or password in plain text.

Kola

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 15 December 2002 21:25
>> To: CF-Talk
>> Subject: Re: Login/Password screen
>> 
>> Jann VanOver wrote:
>> > Cross platform/cross browser.
>> 
>> No problem.
>> 
>> 
>> > If you have people using non-microsoft browsers, server
authentication
>> can
>> > be problematic.
>> 
>> Just stick to Basic HTTP authentication (RFC 2617), I have yet to see
>> the browser that doesn't support it. But if you use NTLM, you are
stuck
>> to IE.
>> 
>> 
>> > Rolling your own with CF can more easily be made friendly for all
>> > heterogeneous situations.  And could give you one app that could be
run
>> on
>> > Windoze, Linux, and MacOSX (if written well, of course)
>> 
>> That only protects .cfm pages (but if that is the only thing required
I
>> do indeed prefer to roll my own HTTP authentication with CF).
>> 
>> Jochem
>> 
>>

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