Adam: Netscape does behave somehow differently under the authentication. I used to have similar problem with a Perl authen module using Netscape 6 (Netscape 4.0 and 3.0 are okay, however). It looks like N6 uses more caching, and does not tolerate any departure from the httpd 1.1 definition; so one gets often the same pop-up login page instead of the redirected page. You may try to remove any caching tags and add nocache in the code.
Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaye-Smith Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gerald Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter Bi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 9:46 PM Subject: RE: NTLM module I am still having problems with the AuthenNTLM module. All works fine for IE and Mozilla browsers but when I use Netscape, I am repeatedly promted for passwords. If I enter my password about 3 to 6 times I will eventually get the full page . If I enter password once, ( and cancel for any further password prompts ) I get only bit of the expected page. If I put a sleep (2) in the perl module before it goes to verify against the SMB server, netscape browser will work albeit somewhat slower. The other aspect I can not understand is that when the perl NTLM module is running, it will often exit from sub's other than the handler sub. ie the handler sub is always called first which calls other sub's but whilst executing these other sub''s , it appears that something seems to cut processing short & passes control back to apache - the perl code never gets a chance to return to the handler module & exit code with a 'return xx'. I have been observing the perl's progress by looking at entries in the error.log . I have also put in a variety of print STDERR staements at key positions to see where the code is exiting. If for instance I put a sleep command in the perl module, the code will often exit whilst the sleep is taking place - it appears that the NTLM module has run out of its allowed time and it has been cut short. The other conclusion is that multiple threads are running and outputting to the error.log & confusing me with the overlapping output. This strange exiting behaviour also appears to occur on all browsers (once that work ok & netscape that does not work.) The other error I get is that the username/password is passed ok from the SMB server verification phase, but then in subsequent calls to the SMB server, the username/password fails - this occurs during the one entry of username/password but the SMB server is contacted several times for verification ( I also check the username & password in the script before thay are submitted to the SMB server so I know they are correct.) Would this be because of timeout in the SMB to respond. I would also expect the SMB server to only need to referred to once, but the perl module is calling the SMB module 3 times during the one username/password entry. I hope the above make sense. I can my log file if this would help. Regards Adam -----Original Message----- From: Kaye-Smith Adam Sent: Monday, 19 August 2002 9:15 AM To: 'Gerald Richter'; Peter Bi; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: NTLM module Thanks for your advice Gerald. I have found a compromise buy having the directive of Authtype Basic but the perl code has been changed to run the NTLM check as well as SMB (regardlesss of the config file) and if both authentications fail, the standard mod_auth code will then be run. Thanks once again. Adam ************************************************************************ The information in this e-mail together with any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any form of review, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you are asked to inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this message and any copies of this message from your computer and/or your computer system network. ************************************************************************
