On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Rolf wrote:
is it possible to explain why with proxy authentication enabled, when a site is visited that wishe sto run an applet, a dialog seeking user credentials is displayed befor ethe applet will run?
This happens if you are using a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) which does not integrate with the browser properly, not sharing the proxy authentication credentials with the browser.
Is it meant (according to the protocols) to work like this?
How user agents (browsers etc) manages user credentials is completely outside of the protocol. Authentication in the protocol is on a per request basis (sessionless).
To avoid asking for the proxy password on each and every request the user agent (browser) caches the login information and reuses the same login+password on the next request automatically.
Regards Henrik
