On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:50:04 +1000, Conrad Parker wrote > hence, two GET requests per hit :) the first is challenged to > authenticate, the second responds to that.
This only happens once. After the first page has been authenticated the browser sends the credentials with every subsequent request in the same directory or a sub-directory without the server sending a 401. In the log file originally sent both requests resulted in 200 responses. -- Nick Wilcox. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
