Thanks for everyones help on this
Regards Jonny > From: "Stephen Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jonathan Feldman wrote: > > > > > > <FontFamily><param>Arial</param>In the Status code report i am told > > > > > > 3777: 401 Authentication required > > > > > > <FontFamily><param>Arial</param>I take this to mean that 3777 requests > > > were made, possibly (very probably!) some made by the same people, to > > > areas of our website that require a password. True or false? > > > > Erm, I think so, but I'm not sure exactly how servers handle > authentication. > > Maybe someone else could answer this better. > > In most cases, when you access a Basic Authetication protected area, the > browser sends a request, receives a 401 response, prompts the user for a > password, and then tries the same request with the username and password. > Even though the person successfully authenticates, the initial request is > still logged as a 401. (The web server has already logged the 401 long > before the successful authentication arrives, so this is perfectly > reasonable behaviour). > > This will probably be quite obvious if you extract the entries from an IP > address that you know uses authentication, and look at the raw data. The > first access per "session" to a given authentication domain will generate > a 401 error. > > And by "session", I mean a from the time a browser is opened on the remote > workstation to the time it is closed, not the time it spends at your site. > If you leave your browser open for a week, and visit thousands of other > sites, it will usually remember authentication details for your site for > all that time (though there may be a limit on how many different sets of > credentials it will remember). > > Aengus > > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this > | mailing list, go to > | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html > | > | List archives are available at > | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ > | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________ Jonathan Feldman IT Officer NACVS Arundel Court 177 Arundel Street Sheffield S1 2NU Tel 0114 278 6636 Fax 0114 278 7004 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web http://www.nacvs.org.uk ____________________________________ Registered charity no. 1001635 Registered company no. 2575306 Registered office as above +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
