On 8/4/06, Danny R. Faught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One person I talked to recently hypothesized that IE intentionally makes it > difficult to automate the authentication dialog in order to discourage > hackers from using a brute force attack to crack passwords. Seems silly now > that most authentication is done within an easily automatable html form.
Basic Authentication isn't really about security, though. The user/pass are trivially encrypted and very easy to sniff. It's more of a "are you sure you need to be here" gateway. -Chris _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
