At 02:39 PM 3/5/01 -0500, Chris Poirier wrote:
>There is a suggestion in the PHP online documentation that has worked for
>me (except in Opera 5, which seems to ignore the Realm). Add a timestamp
>to the Realm that changes with each new session. IE 5.0 will prompt for a
>different password, beca
Hi Ken,
> At 10:56 AM 3/5/01 -0600, John Henckel wrote:
> >1. open mytest.php and when the password prompt appears, I enter a userid/password.
> >2. I see the "Hello" page with my userid and password.
> >3. close IE and reopen mytest.php, again the prompt appears -- this is good.
> >4. close IE
At 10:56 AM 3/5/01 -0600, John Henckel wrote:
>1. open mytest.php and when the password prompt appears, I enter a userid/password.
>2. I see the "Hello" page with my userid and password.
>3. close IE and reopen mytest.php, again the prompt appears -- this is good.
>4. close IE and Restart Windows
At 09:51 PM 3/4/01 -0500, Ken wrote:
>Anyway, can someone please test to see if this doesn't happen in IE5.0?
>
>I really hate this situation, yessir.
I have installed IE 5.00.2614.3500 (that's what came with Win 98 2nd
edition CDROM vers 4.10.A) and it does NOT have the problem you have
d
At 03:18 PM 3/4/01 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
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>Generally, I don't think a login prompt when a user clicks logout is such bad thing.
>
>It lets the user know they are logged out, and the software is waiting for another
>login.
>
>If they choose to go elsewhere, that's fine.
Why it's bad
At 03:11 PM 3/4/01 -0600, Don Read wrote:
>On 04-Mar-01 Ken wrote:
> > I know about the auth logout. Unfortunately, that means that when a user
> > clicks "logout", he gets a "log in" prompt! And, in IE, he has to
> > deliberately blank out the password field, THEN hit enter, THEN the prompt
> >
Ken, I didn't believe you that IE was so stupidly implemented until I tried
it myself. You are right, IE 5 rememebers the password even though I hit
CANCEL on the re-authenticate prompt. And it remembers the password even
when I close all browser windows.
If you decide to store authenticatio
Thanks for the idea, John.
I know about the auth logout. Unfortunately, that means that when a user clicks
"logout", he gets a "log in" prompt! And, in IE, he has to deliberately blank out the
password field, THEN hit enter, THEN the prompt will come again, and he has to hit
escape.
There's
