Mindterm on secure apache server

[Mark Seabourne]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Nate wrote:

Hi Nate,

Thanks for the reply, The passwords are the same on all systems and we are
not using a proxy. The applet works fine on a non https host and also with
the eariler version of the JRE which I have rolled back to. No idea what
fundamental change has occurred between java update version 02 and 05.

Whilst I can control the JRE internally, obviiously I have no control over
remote PC's that my users may use to access this functionality.

Thanks for the input.

Mark

> On 10/19/05, Mark Seabourne <m.seabourne at ncrl.co.uk> wrote:
> > and using this new java plugin we get repeated "Password Required -
> > Networking" dialog boxes which if you enter a valid username and password
> > into, just re-appear until eventually the status bar displays a message
> > about the applet being notinited.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before?
> 
> Mark, I have seen this happen when there are conflicting passwords. 
> The case I experienced was a password-access location which proxied
> another password-access location.   In that case, there was one
> password for the proxy itself, and another for the actual resource.  I
> solved it easily by making the user/pass combination the same for the
> proxy location and the actual resource.
> 
> The only way I could see that happening in your case, though, would be
> if there's two conflicting password requirements in your apache
> configs.  Maybe one set of credentials for the directory, and another
> for the applet.   That case doesn't sound likely, but perhaps there's
> somewhere else with a blank password?
> 
> If it was me, I would try setting up a temporary (non-SSL) vhost and
> see if I still got the same problem.  At least you could see what
> exactly is happening that way (with a local sniffer).
> 
> -Nate
> 
> 

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Mark Seabourne
Computer Systems Administrator

m.seabourne at ncrl.co.uk
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