Authentication problems

Hello,

You can force IE to use HTTP/1.1 from Tools->Advanced
options of IE. 
HTTP/1.0 does not support digest auth!

HTH,

Gorkem Ates

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jemadler" <jem_adlerhotmail.com>
To: <NFServer@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:01 AM
Subject: [NFServer] Authentication problems


> Dear Gorkem,
>
> because changing the proxy settings is not on option at
my work, I
> investigated the logs of the NFS:
>
> Logs of authentication when I log into NFS from
friend/home:
>
> 2006-04-20 07:13:41 81.175.203.11 Guest GET / 401 482 0
HTTP/1.1
>
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+
1.1.4322)
> 2006-04-20 07:13:44 81.175.203.11 jemmie GET / 200 5304
0 HTTP/1.1
>
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+
1.1.4322)
>
> Logs of authentication when I log into NFS from work:
> 2006-04-20 07:19:47 212.159.117.213 Guest GET / 401 482
0 HTTP/1.0
> Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1)
> 2006-04-20 07:19:47 212.159.117.213 Guest GET / 401 482
0 HTTP/1.0
> Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1)
> 2006-04-20 07:19:58 212.159.117.213 Guest GET / 401 482
0 HTTP/1.0
> Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1)
>
> Somehow at work IE 6.0 uses HTTP/1.0 althought IE is
set to use
> HTTP/1.1. So I think this must be proxy related. Could
you help me
> out with a client-side or NFS-side fix for this?
>
> Regards, Jem.
>
> P.s. is there a way to get older versions of NFS to do
more testing?
>
>> -- In NFServer@yahoogroups.com, "Fastream
Technologies" <gates>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In HTTP/1.1, the server tells the client the
preferred methods of
>> authentication and client chooses among them. In
8.1, we implemented
>> "digest" as the first preferred method
than "basic".
>> This was done > to beef up security and
eliminate proxy problems.
>> Your case is a rare one in which the proxy should
not be
>> configured to handle digest auth well. I wonder why
it did not fall
>> back to basic though...
>>
>> I think you need to contact your network admin with
this
> information.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Gorkem Ates
>
>
>
>
>
>
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tream.com/NETFileServer/ 
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>
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