Protected Directory - Login Twice

M

MrC

I have set up a password protected sub directory in my website with a
wmv file in it. When I go to access the file it asks me to login twice.
Any help is appreciated...

Thanks...

BTW if this is the wrong newsgroup for this question, can someone
suggest the right one...
 
T

Toby Inkster

MrC said:
I have set up a password protected sub directory in my website with a
wmv file in it. When I go to access the file it asks me to login twice.
Any help is appreciated...

It is probable that your browser asks for the password, starts recieving
the file, realises that it can't handle the file so passes the URL (but
not the user name and password!) to your media player. Your media player
then attempts to download the file, realises it needs a user name and
password and asks you.
 
D

Dan Abrey

Toby Inkster said:
It is probable that your browser asks for the password, starts recieving
the file, realises that it can't handle the file so passes the URL (but
not the user name and password!) to your media player. Your media player
then attempts to download the file, realises it needs a user name and
password and asks you.

Surely the browser would display the directory listing rather than the media
file though.
 
M

MrC

Toby said:
MrC wrote:




It is probable that your browser asks for the password, starts recieving
the file, realises that it can't handle the file so passes the URL (but
not the user name and password!) to your media player. Your media player
then attempts to download the file, realises it needs a user name and
password and asks you.
Yes thats whats happening, I tried it in both IE and Netscape and the
second request is from the mediaplayer. Is there something I can do to
fix this??

Thanks...
 
T

Toby Inkster

Dan said:
Toby said:
MrC said:
wmv file in it. When I go to access the file it asks me to login twice.

It is probable that your browser asks for the password [...]
Your media player then attempts to download the file, realises it needs
a user name and password and asks you.

Surely the browser would display the directory listing rather than the
media file though.

Why? It will generally display whatever page it was displaying before the
user clicked on the link to the media file. That might be a regular web
page, or an automatically generated directory listing (which *is* a
regular web page as far as the browser is concerned).
 
M

MrC

MrC said:
Yes thats whats happening, I tried it in both IE and Netscape and the
second request is from the mediaplayer. Is there something I can do to
fix this??

Thanks...

If you have Mediaplayer 9 this works (with the double login). With
Mediaplayer 6 it sits there for a while and then times out. Is there a
way to fix this ????
 

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