I am running AJAX with an application that uses IIS Authentication.
While this poses no issues with Internet Explorer, when used with
Firefox it pops up a window asking for a user name and password. This
is expected once when loading the page, but it asks for it every time
something to do with AJAX is used (and never seems to stop).

This seems to render pages with AJAX useless when IIS authentication is
used.

Has anyone encountered this problem? Any workarounds?

(IIS Authentication is where one must be logged in with a Windows/NT
account - so is good for workplaces, LANs where internal applications
are involed.)

Thanks,

Dean

That's because firefox doesn't hold on to your password, and go ahead and
re-try it a few times whenever it gets a challenge from the webserver (IE
does).  But if it's internal-only application, you can require IE-only,
can't you?  Also make sure that none of that client-server
challenge/response traffic is moving through your edge routers, because it's
travelling over the network in plain-text.

... HH

On 11/22/05, Dean <dean.cumm...@det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:

AJAX doesn't seem to work on a MAC either - can anyone verify this?

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From: ajaxpro@googlegroups.com [mailto:ajaxpro@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Harry Holt
Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:38
To: ajaxpro@googlegroups.com
Subject: [ajaxpro] Re: IIS Authentication (windows) and AJAX

That's because firefox doesn't hold on to your password, and go ahead
and re-try it a few times whenever it gets a challenge from the
webserver (IE does).  But if it's internal-only application, you can
require IE-only, can't you?  Also make sure that none of that
client-server challenge/response traffic is moving through your edge
routers, because it's travelling over the network in plain-text.

... HH

On 11/22/05, Dean <dean.cumm...@det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:

Hi,

I am running AJAX with an application that uses IIS Authentication.
While this poses no issues with Internet Explorer, when used with
Firefox it pops up a window asking for a user name and password. This
is expected once when loading the page, but it asks for it every time
something to do with AJAX is used (and never seems to stop).

This seems to render pages with AJAX useless when IIS authentication is
used.

Has anyone encountered this problem? Any workarounds?

(IIS Authentication is where one must be logged in with a Windows/NT
account - so is good for workplaces, LANs where internal applications
are involed.)

Thanks,

Dean

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please see more on ;
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=631269

        this.xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");

I am now removing this line of code at runtime with the following piece
of Javascript:

        if (typeof(AjaxPro) == "object" && AjaxPro.Request &&
                AjaxPro.Request.prototype["_invoke"])
        {
                var data = AjaxPro.Request.prototype["_invoke"]+"";
                data = data.replace(
                        "this.xmlHttp.setRequestHeader(" +
                        "\"Connection\", \"close\");", ";");
                var new_func = eval(data);
                if (new_func)
                {
                        AjaxPro.Request.prototype["_invoke"] = new_func;
                }
        }