HTTP Basic Authentication
I'm running SP3 and can't get HTTP Basic Authentication to work. The checkbox in
the Gateway config is checked. I put a link on the Bookmarks channel to a site
which is protected with HTTP basic authentication (served up by an Apache web
server), click the link and get prompted for the http auth info. Supply it & hit OK.
Log out of iPlanet, close all browser windows, re-run the browser, login in to
iPlanet, click the bookmark link and it re-prompts for the http auth info. What else
do I need to do?
I notice that in the User profile there is a list captioned "HTTP Basic Authentication"
(advanced options) which is inherited by default. The list is empty. I can add to the
list by typing into an edit box - what should go in here? It's not mentioned in the
doc anywhere - I've spent hours searching for it.
Mike
I just tested this and it worked fine.
We haven't had any reports that this feature is not working.
Are you using the httpd proxy ?
Karthik !
Mike Bees wrote:
> I'm running SP3 and can't get HTTP Basic Authentication to work. The checkbox in
> the Gateway config is checked. I put a link on the Bookmarks channel to a site
> which is protected with HTTP basic authentication (served up by an Apache web
> server), click the link and get prompted for the http auth info. Supply it & hit OK.
> Log out of iPlanet, close all browser windows, re-run the browser, login in to
> iPlanet, click the bookmark link and it re-prompts for the http auth info. What else
> do I need to do?
>
> I notice that in the User profile there is a list captioned "HTTP Basic Authentication"
> (advanced options) which is inherited by default. The list is empty. I can add to the
> list by typing into an edit box - what should go in here? It's not mentioned in the
> doc anywhere - I've spent hours searching for it.
>
> Mike
Mike,
I'm having the same problem trying to access the web Outlook client. With
HTTP Basic Authentication enabled, the user profile is being correctly
updated with the authentication string by the gateway, but it doesn't appear
to be sent back to the external web site. Frankly, I'm not sure this
function works and would love to hear if others have found a way around
this. I gave up and wrote a Servlet to manage the authentication instead.
I view the user profile from the command line using ipsadmin and can see the
authentication attribute for the user, but have never seen it in the
console.
-Sean
"Mike Bees" <junkmail@not.wel.com> wrote in message
news:9ochl1$8h78@ripley.netscape.com...
> I'm running SP3 and can't get HTTP Basic Authentication to work. The
checkbox in
> the Gateway config is checked. I put a link on the Bookmarks channel to a
site
> which is protected with HTTP basic authentication (served up by an Apache
web
> server), click the link and get prompted for the http auth info. Supply it
& hit OK.
> Log out of iPlanet, close all browser windows, re-run the browser, login
in to
> iPlanet, click the bookmark link and it re-prompts for the http auth info.
What else
> do I need to do?
>
> I notice that in the User profile there is a list captioned "HTTP Basic
Authentication"
> (advanced options) which is inherited by default. The list is empty. I can
add to the
> list by typing into an edit box - what should go in here? It's not
mentioned in the
> doc anywhere - I've spent hours searching for it.
>
> Mike
>
>
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