mod_radius, apache2 and the auth cookie.

[Palmer J.D.F.]

Hi,

>   Was was pointed out, you'll get authentication dialogs for every gif
> & jpg on the page.  This is a BAD idea.

The gifs etc are located in an unprotected directory, surely this prevents
from having to re-authenticate for each?

> 
> > If I get a failed login, then try to login again it just uses cached
> > credentials and doesn't prompt for details, if I close and re-open the
> > browser it does then allow me to enter details.
> 
>   Then your browser is broken.

Firefox and Opera are also broken in that case. :-(

A bit of a dig around reveals this from the Apache site, which implies that
all browsers cache the credentials.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html#basicfaq  


Thanks,
Jezz Palmer.