Re: [users@httpd] Apache checks authentication twice

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On 9/12/05, Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR) <S.Guenther@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This dir contains MS Excel files. The Internet Explorer asks me for the
> username and password as expected. When I click on one of the Excel files,
> Excel comes up and asks me a second time for a username and passwort.
> 
> I guess that for apache a second application wants to access this dir and
> therefore it asks for the data, again.
> Does anyone of you know a trick to get rid of the second authentication
> window?

No, this isn't how it works.  Apache asks for the credentials on
*every request*.  Normally the browser only prompts for the
userid/password once and then caches the credentials and resends them
automatically.  So this is a client issue that can't be fixed from the
server side, as far as I know.

Joshua.

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