Re: [revServer]http authentication -

2011-08-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
A good way to go is there to prefer to send the credentials in HTTP POST as encrypted datas. Le 30 août 2011 à 01:12, Matthias Rebbe a écrit : > Bob, > > thanks. I am aware of that. The data is not top secret, but should not be > free available for everyone. We use other authentication methods

Re: [revServer]http authentication -

2011-08-29 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Bob, thanks. I am aware of that. The data is not top secret, but should not be free available for everyone. We use other authentication methods for more critical data. Regards, Matthias Am 30.08.2011 um 00:49 schrieb Bob Sneidar: > Not sure, but as you must know, cleartext passwords are easi

Re: [revServer]http authentication -

2011-08-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not sure, but as you must know, cleartext passwords are easily sniffable. As long as the web site is not serving up private or critical information, I suppose there's no harm, but if it is, then you should consider using https and having a form that gets the credentials. Bob On Aug 29, 2011,

[revServer]http authentication -

2011-08-29 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, is revServer able to read/get the username of an http authentication, if username and password are included in the url. for example http://JohnDoe:abcd...@web.com is the url the customer uses to connect to the server. Is it possible for revServer to get the username JohnDoe? Or are user