Http Authentication

[Matt]

Hello Group,

I'm writing an application that automates Internet Explorer and I need
to also automate the process of http authentication and http proxy
authentication.
In a previous post to this group it was suggested to open a socket and
perform the http authentication prior to leaving the BeforeNavigate
event, so that when the browser performs the navigation the
authentication had already taken place by this before-hand transparent
handling of the authentication through http level communications API.

What I don't understand yet is whether performing the authentication
on this socket will also take effect for the connection that Internet
Explorer itself will use. (Or did I get it wrong and the correct
solution is to somehow use an existing connection of Internet Explorer
for my transparent background authentication?)

Your knowledge of communication and automation will be very much
appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Matt
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