Name: jd32717 Date: 12/04/98


When a web server sends a HTTP authentication requestion back, the "Username and Password Required" Applet Window is unusable, looks weird and basically just doesn't work!
(Review ID: 39323)
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natalie.wang@eng 1999-03-11

My customer is running both applet and servlet on NT4.0. They also run a backend
server on SUN, but for purposes of this problem it is irrelevant. They never
seem to get that far. In fact, the servlet doesn't seem to be really necessary
either. As long as the applet attempts to connect to something, the failure can
be seen. As far as the browser, it really shouldn't matter since they run
within the plug-in, but typically they use IE 4.

They create a URL connection back to the applet host by using the applet's
codebase to build the base URL, and appending the rest of the URL (in our
case, to a servlet). When they open and use the URLConnection, the plug-in
displays a proxy authentication prompt, even though they already were prompted
by the browser for authentication information just to access the web page.

It seems like the plug-in should be getting that stored authentication
information from the browser automatically so our users don't have to
authenticate twice to the same site (once for the browser and once for the
applet).

See attachment for a applet-servlet communication test case.
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