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SYMPTOMSWorld Wide Web (WWW) clients may fail to authenticate with an Universal Resource Locator (URL) that requires Basic Authentication on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). In some cases, the WWW client may access violate when required to use Basic Authentication. CAUSE
IIS does not supply a Realm for Basic Authentication. Some WWW clients
require that a Realm be returned from the Internet Server to accept the
servers Basic Authentication challenge. The following WWW clients do not
require a Realm:
RESOLUTION
Microsoft has modified Internet Information Server 1.0 to send a Realm with
all Basic Authentication challenge messages. By default, the Realm returned
is the "host" (host header, DNS host name, or IP address), or you
can set the Realm in the Registry.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Internet
Information Server version 1.0. This problem was corrected in the latest
Internet Information Server version 1.0 U.S. Service Pack. This problem was
also corrected in the latest Windows NT 3.51 U.S. Service
Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following
word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
Additional query words: prodiis Client/Server security
Keywords : kbnetwork kbbug1.00 kbfix3.51 NTSrv iissecurity kbfix1.00.sp2 |
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