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programmer4hire · 05-09-2003, 11:38 PM

The answer is:
The username/password is cached by the browser so the member doesnt have to type it in again for each authenticated request...when you click on a file type that uses a non-inline viewer, like windows media viewer, the username and password are asked for again cause the seperate viewer has no knowledge of the username and password. You can get around this by encoding the username and password in the link on a php page... username::password@www.mydomain.com/members/some.mpg
This however will not work with mpeg4's and there is no workaround as of yet for mpeg4's.
You can thank microsoft for not thinking of this and making it anoying to the members.

Chris

05-09-2003, 11:38 PM
programmer4hire Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 43	The answer is: The username/password is cached by the browser so the member doesnt have to type it in again for each authenticated request...when you click on a file type that uses a non-inline viewer, like windows media viewer, the username and password are asked for again cause the seperate viewer has no knowledge of the username and password. You can get around this by encoding the username and password in the link on a php page... username::password@www.mydomain.com/members/some.mpg This however will not work with mpeg4's and there is no workaround as of yet for mpeg4's. You can thank microsoft for not thinking of this and making it anoying to the members. Chris __________________ Available for contract programming work. C, C++, JAVA, Perl, PHP, Delphi, MySql, Oracle. [email protected]