IE 3.02 / frames / authentication part deux

[Michael Smith <mj...@iii.co.uk>]

Me's an idiot.   To try this out you'll naturally enough need a
username/password - testifa/testifa should do it.

Mike

> I'm experiencing all sorts of weird problems with IE 3.02 and frames
> with authentication.  When the frameset and some of the frames
> themselves require authentication I get a mixture of multiple prompting
> and authentication failure errors.  I've been trying to specify exactly
> what is going on, but I have not been able to engineer a page where some
> of the errors are 100% reproducable.  However if you go to:
>
> http://www.iii.co.uk/standardlife/ifa/
>
> click on the "stationery" button, and use the java menu (select the
> subselections) to select different frames on the right, you *should* get
> prompted for username / password every now-and-then.  This doesn't
> happen with IE 4 or Netscape.  (Sorry this web server isn't running a
> proper web server; it will be soon!).
>
> I have also seen the problem in another area with a proper web server,
> but the errors here seem to be reliable :)  I also seem to get some
> possible timeout dependent errors.  Hmmpfh!
>
> Mike