Redirect strategies for coping with IE7

[Bob Sneidar]

Just an FYI there are content filters that react to redirects as well.  
In this often cruel and unforgiving world it seems the use of  
redirects and proxies can wreak havoc with the things we use to  
protect ourselves. I am not sure what the solution is, but I can think  
of who to blame. ;-)

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Jan 30, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I have some content which I want protected against most visitors to my
> site, but some I want to grant access.
>
> htaccess would seem the logical route, but I also want to provide a
> zero-login option for those people I want to grant access.
>
> For the non-Microsoft world I could provide a URL with the htaccess
> login and password embedded:
>
>   http://user:pass@domain.com/content/
>
> But IE7 doesn't allow URLs with embedded passwords. :(
>
> I've tried a CGI that does its own authentication and then redirects,
> but even redirecting to a URL like the one above with an embedded
> password is not allowed with IE.
>
> How can I protect that directory and also provide access to the folder
> for those I give a login and password to, without requiring them to
> manually log in each time?
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World
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