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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lincoln D. Stein)
Mon Dec 18 22:26:16 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:35:14 -0500
To: fred@nasirc.hq.nasa.gov
From: lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu (Lincoln D. Stein)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, jcarroll@redman.canada.dg.com,
tara@linkage.cpmc.columbia.edu, fred@nasirc.hq.nasa.gov
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> I think you're getting the disk cache confused with Netscape's
> authentication. Your demonstration page will not work
> correctly if you flush the disk cache before attempting it.
>
>I'll ditto this. I've been attempting to reproduce this for the last
>hour or so and have not been able to find a cached password under any
>of the .netscape* directories.
Dave McComb is right. The password isn't being cached, just the protected
document. I'm not sure I like this much better. I don't want the next
person who uses my personal computer to have access to all the protected
documents I recently viewed.
Lincoln
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