Applet asks for a password
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:55 am
Hi Malun,
A rather interesting thing happened to me today.
I wouldn't count this as a bug, but rather as a funny double feature:
I made a slight modification to my webcam site from my web server (IIS 6.0). The architecture of this new page is very simple to figure out:
Server address:port -> Password Check -> The Applet page
This is what happens:
I open the page and IIS starts asking for a username and a password. I give them and the Applet page opens. The gray box with a coffee cup appears and before giving me any picture from the webcam, I receive a Java applet window asking for a password. The window consists of three parts,
Firewall: My server's DNS address / IP-address
Realm: (this part appears to be empty)
Scheme: ntlm
The editable fields are (not surprisingly):
User name:
Password:
Leaving this window using [ Yes ] or [ No ] buttons without supplying any username or password or supplying a string of random characters will only re-invoke it and will not proceed any further or display anything until you supply the correct username and password (which are the same ones you supplied when IIS asked them). After that everything proceeds as normal.
Just wanted you to know that there actually exists a password check of some sort in your applet - although uncontrollable by any means.
Like I told You, this is not a problem for me.
A rather interesting thing happened to me today.
I wouldn't count this as a bug, but rather as a funny double feature:
I made a slight modification to my webcam site from my web server (IIS 6.0). The architecture of this new page is very simple to figure out:
Server address:port -> Password Check -> The Applet page
This is what happens:
I open the page and IIS starts asking for a username and a password. I give them and the Applet page opens. The gray box with a coffee cup appears and before giving me any picture from the webcam, I receive a Java applet window asking for a password. The window consists of three parts,
Firewall: My server's DNS address / IP-address
Realm: (this part appears to be empty)
Scheme: ntlm
The editable fields are (not surprisingly):
User name:
Password:
Leaving this window using [ Yes ] or [ No ] buttons without supplying any username or password or supplying a string of random characters will only re-invoke it and will not proceed any further or display anything until you supply the correct username and password (which are the same ones you supplied when IIS asked them). After that everything proceeds as normal.
Just wanted you to know that there actually exists a password check of some sort in your applet - although uncontrollable by any means.
Like I told You, this is not a problem for me.
