Re: Authenticate only once for IP address or DNS name or alias

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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM, jblack4 <thomas.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have Digest authentication working if the user enters IP address in the
> browser.  If that application then makes a request for data to either the
> fully qualified DNS name or intranet alias (of that same server), the user
> gets prompted again for username and password.
>
> Is there a way to make the same authentication session work for all 3
> combination (IP, DNS, alias)?  Is it an apache setup issue, DNS issue or is
> this just the way it works?

It's your browser declining to automatically send your credentials to
what it thinks is a different host.  I don't think you'll  get it to
behave any different, unless you force a canonical hostname before
authenticating.

-- 
Eric Covener
covener@xxxxxxxxx

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