Not very secure. Pls. read the spec from W3C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Batchelder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Windows authentication and Netscape
Basic Authentication is cleartext, Digest is cryptographically secure, IIRC. --b Bryan Batchelder eBusiness Consultant ConnectWise, Inc. 813-935-7100 x 425 > -----Original Message----- > From: Srinivasa Sivakumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Windows authentication and Netscape > > > Matt: > > Netscape supports Basic and Digest authentications not the > Integrated Windows Authentication. > > When you specify authentication mode as "Windows" it uses the > default Integrated Windows Authentication. You can override > this using IIS MMC. Open the IIS MMC and go to the website or > the virtual directory and assign basic or digest > authentication methods. > > Do remember both the basic and digest authentication methods > are very weak authentication methods with compared to > Integrated Windows Authentication. > > Thanks, > Srinivasa Sivakumar > Developer, Author and Reviewer > www3.brinkster.com/webguru/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Milner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:34 AM > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Windows authentication and Netscape > > > not sure if this was already answered, but no, Netscape did > not support Windows authentication last time I checked. This > is an IE only thing. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Anderson > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 4/26/02 3:46 AM > Subject: [DOTNET] Windows authentication and Netscape > > I'm using Windows Authentication mode, ie > <authentication mode="Windows" /> > <authorization> > <deny users="?" /> > </authorization> > > and alls well in IE6 > > I try to see what the site will look like in Netscape (I just > wanted to see what the IE WebControls looked like when not > using DHTML behaviours), and I get the following error: > > ----------------------- > Access is denied. > Description: An error occurred while accessing the resources > required to serve this request. The server may not be > configured for access to the requested URL. > > Error message 401.2.: Access is denied because of the Web > server's configuration. Contact the Web server's > administrator for help. > ----------------------- > > If I change the authentication model to Forms, it works a treat > > Doesn't Netscape support Windows authentication? > If it does, what could I be doing wrong? > > TIA > Merak > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe > from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at > http://discuss.develop.com. > > You can read messages from the > DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to > other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe > from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at > http://discuss.develop.com. > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
