Hello Nick,
Actually, if you have authentication activated, tomcat (and slide) always
expects you to be authenticated. If your're not, the server and client
negotiate with witch other for authentication. More or less this is what
happens:
1) client: gimme this file
2) server: you are not authorized, you must authenticate using this
encryption algorithm using credentials of this realm
3) authenticated client: ok, now I'm this guy, gimme this file
4) server: ok, your credentials are confirmed, here is what you've requested
....
What is happening when a client is always requested for credentials? A clear
symptom is that the http application in the client side is not very smart,
because it's always discarding the credentials introduced in previous
negotiations.
So a quick answer is: slide and tomcat always need someone to be
authenticated before interaction can occur, so you don't have a problem
there; what you probably need to satisfy that requisite is a dumb http
application in the client side.
Hope this helps,
Miguel Figueiredo
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Longinow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: quinta-feira, 18 de Novembro de 2004 14:02
To: 'Slide Users Mailing List'
Subject: Force authentication on edit of webdav document ?
Hi
I notice that when I edit a document that is retrieved from the Slide webdav
server, ie via a web folder, in
an application like Word, it will ask for authentication the first time and
then not after. Seems to be caching the credentials. For other apps, like
Excel, the authentication is required every time the document is edited.
With other webdav servers I have accessed, they seem to require the
authentication with each and every request. This would tell me that its not
a browser setting, since I am not accessing the document from a browser.
Is there a way to force Slide's webdav server to request authentication
every time a document is retrieved ?
Nick
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