>Number: 1556 >Category: mod_auth-any >Synopsis: Authentication requires multiple tries on IE3.n, Netscape 3.n >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 15 14:10:01 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2.4 >Environment: HP-UX 10.20, HP ANSI C-compiler. >Description: Using a vanilla NCSA authorization with a 'deny from all' for the doc root directory in access.conf, and an .htaccess in the target dirctory which contains:
AuthName 6FlagsBook AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/conf/users require valid-user satisfy any it takes multiple tries to get authenticated on Netscape 3.02 or IE 3.02. The second or third try gets the pages, or some of them. If the second gets some the third gets all. Netscape Communicator seems to be okay in this respect. I wonder if there's a compatability issue. I just installed and am trialing Apache, so I have no sense of how prior releases worked. >How-To-Repeat: Unfortunately, I cannot externalize the URL at this time. The information thereon is proprietary. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ]
