[Kolab-devel] Whats bad with Webmin?

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 19:41, konold at erfrakon.de wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> > On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:21, Martin Konold wrote:
> > > Am Tuesday 24 February 2004 17:15 schrieb Stephan Buys:
> > >
> > > Last but not least we have to get rid of http basic authentication
> > > which simply does not work as advertized with moderm browsers when
> > > trying to change identities.
> >
> > It is possible to use basic authentication sanely.
> > I think the details are in the old issue tracker.
>
> No, unfortunately it does not work as advertized ;-(
>
> I put in a lot of effort and I could verify that modern browsers (e.g.
> Mozilla) do honour the realm but instead of failing/showing the
> login/password dialog when seeing a new realm they retry all previously
> known to be working credentials as soon as another previously visited URL
> is seen.

Which makes sense in itself.

The trick as described in the bug tracker and running fine here
is to show an unprotected page inbetween before you can log
into the same page with a new login.
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