On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:57:14 +0100, Martijn <no@spam.com> wrote:

>Dear Sir, Miss,
>
>I am trying to setup proper authentication on a IIS 5.0 (Win2K server)
>website that works fine with Mozilla 1.7x and IE6.
>
>1) I tried "Windows authentication" mode in IIS. It works with both
>browsers but not always. It depends on the kind of network, firewall,
>proxy etc.
>
>2) I switched over to the "Digest Authentication" method.
>In combination with IE6 I did not met problems, but working with Moz 1.7
>(of Firefox) failed:
>
>- I goto a page on the IIS server
>- I logon -> OK, this page is loaded and shown
>- I click on a link to go to another page on that site: the browser
>reports "The network request is not supported"
>
>a) Is Mozilla "IIS 5 Digest Authentication" compliant?
>b) any suggestions?

Jason Brown [MSFT] wrote:
> I'll just add that Mozilla on Windows is able to handle NTLM quite nicely,
> though I don't think it can handle Kerberos. I assume it's also
> client-certificate aware, but not as far as I know Digest-capable. Usually
> the NTLM killer is a proxy server which can't pass the credentials (ISA
> Server can pass, not much else)
>
>

"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:57:14 +0100, Martijn <no@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>Dear Sir, Miss,
>>
>>I am trying to setup proper authentication on a IIS 5.0 (Win2K server)
>>website that works fine with Mozilla 1.7x and IE6.
>>
>>1) I tried "Windows authentication" mode in IIS. It works with both
>>browsers but not always. It depends on the kind of network, firewall,
>>proxy etc.
>>
>>2) I switched over to the "Digest Authentication" method.
>>In combination with IE6 I did not met problems, but working with Moz 1.7
>>(of Firefox) failed:
>>
>>- I goto a page on the IIS server
>>- I logon -> OK, this page is loaded and shown
>>- I click on a link to go to another page on that site: the browser
>>reports "The network request is not supported"
>>
>>a) Is Mozilla "IIS 5 Digest Authentication" compliant?
>>b) any suggestions?
>
> Basic authentication is the only guranteed working one across the
> board.
>
> Jeff

"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
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: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:57:14 +0100, Martijn <no@spam.com> wrote:

"Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
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> Digest Authentication is defined in an RFC (RFC 2617), and Mozilla/Firefox
> definately supports it.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
>
> "Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
> news:42279ffa.867702319@msnews.microsoft.com...
> : On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:57:14 +0100, Martijn <no@spam.com> wrote:
> :
> : >Dear Sir, Miss,
> : >
> : >I am trying to setup proper authentication on a IIS 5.0 (Win2K server)
> : >website that works fine with Mozilla 1.7x and IE6.
> : >
> : >1) I tried "Windows authentication" mode in IIS. It works with both
> : >browsers but not always. It depends on the kind of network, firewall,
> : >proxy etc.
> : >
> : >2) I switched over to the "Digest Authentication" method.
> : >In combination with IE6 I did not met problems, but working with Moz
> 1.7
> : >(of Firefox) failed:
> : >
> : >- I goto a page on the IIS server
> : >- I logon -> OK, this page is loaded and shown
> : >- I click on a link to go to another page on that site: the browser
> : >reports "The network request is not supported"
> : >
> : >a) Is Mozilla "IIS 5 Digest Authentication" compliant?
> : >b) any suggestions?
> :
> : Basic authentication is the only guranteed working one across the
> : board.
> :
> : Jeff
>
>