basic authentication not being requested

Hello,
I've got a page protected by apache basic authentication. It's actually
a backuppc admin page running on apache 2.2. On one machine i am prompted
for the username and password and all is well. On the other i'm never
prompted and i get a blank page. Both machines are running xp with ie6. Is
this an apache issue one of consistency, or if not where else should i look?
Thanks.
Dave.

On Oct 31, 4:49 pm, "Dave" <dmehle... DeleteThis @woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a page protected by apache basic authentication. It's actually
> a backuppc admin page running on apache 2.2. On one machine i am prompted
> for the username and password and all is well. On the other i'm never
> prompted and i get a blank page. Both machines are running xp with ie6. Is
> this an apache issue one of consistency, or if not where else should i look?
> Thanks.
> Dave.

my guess is that you have some kind of

combination of

Require Valid User

and

Satisfy Any

with an Order Allow, Deny statement with some IP adress

However thats just a guess, how about looking at the response headers
from the server.
If you are getting the proper response headers sent to both machines,
then all is well with the server config and your ie6 is behaving badly
(more badly than normal)

if the headers are different,heres an example of the proper headers to
expect for a basic auth response:


HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:10:43 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Access Protected Directory"
Content-Length: 631
Content-Type: text/html

notice the 401 Authorization Required header and the WWW... realm
which sets the title of the login box.

You should consider installing fiddlertool on the server box, the
default port for that proxy is 8888 i believe, then goto fidler
options and check alow remote machines to connect, make sure the
inward rule for the firewall accepts tcp connection son port 8888 and
direct your other computer to use a proxy server of the IP address of
the server, and port 8888, then both machines' requests will show up
inside fiddlertools raw session inspect screens.

you wont regret it, that tool is so incredibly useable. Anyway, show
us your config for apache to get a better answer than my feeble hand
waving.