[3259] in WWW Security List Archive
.htaccess & MS-Internet Explorer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lincoln Stein)
Wed Oct 16 11:57:14 1996
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:20:37 -0400
From: Lincoln Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu>
To: "Jeff Middleton" <jeffm@sgiserv3.aws.waii.com>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9610151000.ZM1891@sgiserv3.aws.waii.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Access control, including handling of .htaccess, is all done on the
SERVER's side of the connection. It shouldn't be affected by the
choice of browser. If you're seeing a problem when using IE 3.0, it's
something unrelated to the handling of .htaccess. Perhaps your server
is sending some peculiar headers based on a syntax error in .htaccess.
I do use IE 3.0 successfully with .htaccess-controlled directories in
combination with an Apache server.
I recommend that you telnet directly to your server, and fetch the
document that's giving you problems:
telnet your.site 80
GET /path/to/protected/file HTTP/1.0
<extra newline>
This will return the full document, including the headers. You can
look at it to see if there's something strange there.
Lincoln
Jeff Middleton writes:
> Perhaps, this has already been covered in a FAQ somewhere,
> if so, could someone please direct me to it.
>
> I want to use the built-in authentciation scheme in the NCSA
> server - primarily for traffic control and somewhat for user
> access habits (yes I know its not that secure).
>
> The Netscape Navigator seems to handle this feature ok. I'm
> not sure if the latest Mosaic does (I'm looking into it now).
>
> My concern is that v3.0 of MS-Internet Explorer cannot handle
> .htaccess protected directories. Is this true or is there
> some configuration that lets it work. All I get is an error
> concerning the header - not even a 401 error.
>
> I've emailed NCSA and MS, but have not had any feedback as
> yet.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help. You are welcome to contact
> me directly help on this topic at:
>
> jeff.middleton@waii.com
>
> Jeff Middleton
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