Chet Nichols III wrote: > 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? c > 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! No, There's no way for me to use the login information again (and I *never* do that, anyway, I *always* type my password in, even on my system at home). It's *way* more complicated than that. I'm going through the corporate security platform, that uses IBM's WebSEAL, part of Tivoli. What I'm trying to do is run a perl script to grab the rss feed from our group's website. I've got a credential - a .pfx file - and I'm trying to hand it to WebSEAL the same way that my browser does. There is ZERO information in IBM's online docs for WebSEAL for what the *client* needs to hand it, and how to hand it. All they've got is how to configure the server side (which I have utterly no control or visibility into, though I'm trying to get some log entries from the guy who does handle it). So what I was doing was watching my browser's interaction going to the site, and looking for requests for credentials. I don't see anything that I can identify as such. I reiterate: *bleah* mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
