It almost sounds like it's a site you previously visited and used HTTP basic authentication to access, and hit a checkbox to 'remember this information'. So, you're visiting it again, Firefox goes "oh cool I have this login information from the last time", and asks if you want to use the previous information.. meaning, it's just something stored client side. If you hit "yes", it will send an Authentication: Basic <base64-coded-login> header along with the request. Do you see any of that, or think that might be what's going on? Talk to you soon! Chet On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM, <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone have any idea how a browser recognizes that a cite is asking > for a credential file, and hands it back to it? > > For example, I go to a site, and firefox suddenly says "this sites wants a > credential - is this the credential that you want to give it?" I've used a > plugin that shows me http headers and responses, and see nothing where that > happens. > > Links? Pointers? Clues for the poor? > > mark > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- ---------------------------------------- chet nichols III chet.nichols@xxxxxxxxx aim: chet / twitter: chet http://chetnichols.org ---------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
