Whether IE on Mac supports authenticaiton?

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Tony - 25 May 2004 11:39 GMT

Whether IE (Internet Explorer) on Mac supports authenticaiton? How we can do
it on client side? Thanks!

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Dominic Marsat - 26 May 2004 18:29 GMT

Tony,

You have a number of options. It really depends on what type of
authentication you want to use.

Is the site hosted on IIS?

IIS supports digest, basic and integrated windows authentication (anonymous
access too but obviously you're not interested in this).....or you can use a
database containing usernames and passwords etc.

Can you provide more info?

Rgds, Dominic

> Whether IE (Internet Explorer) on Mac supports authenticaiton? How we can do
> it on client side? Thanks!

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Tony - 27 May 2004 09:48 GMT

I mean basic/digest or integration authentication.

Thanks a lot!

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Dominic Marsat - 28 May 2004 09:04 GMT

Hi Tony,

Sorry about the delay replying.

The internal network here is using integrated authentication and we have a
Mac setup for testing with several browsers. When the browser on the Mac is
pointed at one of the internal sites the browser prompts for a
login/password/domain via a dialog box. (I think) this is standard behaviour
for most browsers, otherwise many sites on the world-wide-web would be
inaccessible to the user.

I can only see this being a problem for you if you don't have access to
these settings on the server to enable/disable the type of authentication.
So it's server - not client dependent.

Is this what you wanted to know?

Rgds, Dominic

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