I have an Tomcat server on an internal network configured to require basic authentication. This works fine when I use IE or Java code to access a site, but when I try to access the site using Firefox, the user/password is never accepted. I have packet sniffed the GET calls from both IE and Firefox and the Authorization header is the same for both. I can access the Tomcat Manager using basic auth and external sites with auth so it's not entirely broken. Tomcat has maxKeepAliveRequests set to 1 (to deal with a .NET SOAP interop problem) - that's the only oddball config in Tomcat.
I realize this is more likely a Firefox problem than a Tomcat one, but I'm wondering if anyone has seen behavior like this. This is the diff between the IE HTTP headers (<) and the Firefox HTTP headers (>)... < Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */* < Accept-Language: en-us < Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate < User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Feedreader; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 7c3,9 < Connection: Keep-Alive --- > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) > Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 > Accept: > text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 > Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 > Keep-Alive: 300 > Connection: keep-alive --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
