Re: Authentication in Mosaic

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From: rst@ai.mit.edu (Robert S. Thau)
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 94 10:12:10 EST
Message-id: <9401021512.AA05772@volterra>
To: rhb@hotsand.att.com, robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Authentication in Mosaic
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If you control the server in question, then there is a trick which lets
you make Mosaic forget the information --- create a directory with a
.htaccess file which *always* denies access, by, e.g., requiring membership
in an empty group.  Attempts to retrieve a file in that directory will
result in authentication failures, to which Mosaic responds by letting you
enter a new name and password.

But this is a kludge, and for foreign servers, I still don't know anything
that works.

rst