On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Richard Grevers wrote:
In my experience, if I follow a link into a subpage in
the protected
directory rather than the index page (where my browser does store the
login) or if I follow an URL which includes the user/pass (as I might in a
bookmark) then if I follow any link from that first page I have to log in a
second time. This happens on several browsers.
Well, I've never seen that happen.
Here, I've put a couple other pages into one of my Safari bug test pages
at work. Try:
http://www.scec.org/safaribugdemo/somefile.html
with username "username" and password "password", then click on the
other
links.
Safari 1.0: works fine
IE 5.2/Mac: works fine
Mozilla Firebird 0.61: works fine
Mozilla 1.4: works fine
Netscape 4.77: works fine
lynx 2.8.4rel.1: works fine
Konqueror 3.1.1: works fine
Amaya 7.1: works fine
IE 5.0/Win: works fine
Having told each browser to store the password, quit and come back to same
page:
Safari 1.0: works transparently
IE 5.2/Mac: remembers the values, but brings up filled-out dialog box on
first visit back, you have to hit OK. After that links to other pages are
transparent.
Mozilla Firebird 0.61: same -- filled-out dialog on first page, then
transparent
Mozilla 1.4: same -- filled-out dialog on first page, then transparent
Opera 6.02: similar; you have to hit "get from keychain" to fill out the
dialog box, hit ok; other pages then transparent
IE 5.0/Win: I was unable to get this to save passwords, but it may be
disabled elsewhere in the configuration.
The following don't seem to allow saving passwords, so you have to type it
in once for each browser session:
Netscape 4.77
lynx 2.8.4rel.1
Konqueror 3.1.1
Try revisiting at the index page (
http://www.scec.org/safaribugdemo/)
instead of a named page:
Same behavior as the named page:
Safari 1.0
IE 5.2/Mac*
Mozilla Firebird 0.61
Mozilla 1.4
Not quite the same:
Opera 6.02: 'get from keychain' comes up with the wrong user/password
pair. It's unclear what it would do if I didn't have a stored password for
another section of the site.
* Another note on IE 5.2/Mac: it doesn't seem to be able to distinguish
between different realms on the same server. If you save a
username/password pair for one realm, it offers the same pair when
visiting a separate password-protected part of the server. If you then
save that pair, it offers up the new pair the next time you visit either
realm. So, you can apparently only store one set per server with this
browser.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)