On 9/12/05, Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This dir contains MS Excel files. The Internet Explorer asks me for the > username and password as expected. When I click on one of the Excel files, > Excel comes up and asks me a second time for a username and passwort. > > I guess that for apache a second application wants to access this dir and > therefore it asks for the data, again. > Does anyone of you know a trick to get rid of the second authentication > window?
No, this isn't how it works. Apache asks for the credentials on *every request*. Normally the browser only prompts for the userid/password once and then caches the credentials and resends them automatically. So this is a client issue that can't be fixed from the server side, as far as I know. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
