| DaveMo 2007-06-09, 1:21 pm |
| On Jun 8, 12:52 pm, murphya...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> How can I set up IIS to accept authentication from a client POSTing to
> my website with their username/password in the URL?
>
> Right now I have Annonymous turned off and Digest turned on. The user
> account has read/execute privileges for the virtual folder.
>
> So they are sending me this
>
> http://username:passw...@server.dom...l/url.page.aspx
>
> And they are getting this
>
> Error 401.1 Unauthorized
>
> I want them to get this
>
> 202 Success
You should read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489
You need to enable Basic authentication to make this work.
Also, this sends credentials in plain text over the network, so if you
really want to use Basic (often not the best choice) then you should
use SSL (HTTPS).
HTH,
Dave
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