Web Access causing browser security prompt in firefox?

Hi guys,

Hopefully this is something simple. I have created a new web user and document group.
I have placed a document into this new group and created a page with the login using [WebLogin]

The protected page sits here: http://www.searchmarketingworld2008.com/presentations.htm

When I visit in IE all is well, however when I visit in Firefox I get the browser Authentication Required Box, which will not accept the MODx username and password? Is this an IIS issue, strange that IE is working fine?

EDIT: Its doing the same in IE also.

Cheers,

Justin

This seems to me to be an IIS issue, but I am IIS illiterate so I could be way off. As far as I know the authentication prompt should not show, you should be redirected to your site’s login page rather than the prompt showing up.

Hi there,

More info: Another site running MODx 0.9.2.2 on the same box has no problems and does not display this problem.
Any of my sites running: 0.9.6 seem to have this problem.

Did you guys change the security code that checks if a page is in a Document Group in 0.9.6?
It does not really look like an IIS configuration issue if 0.9.2.2 is fine, as is an even older version on the same machine.

Thanx

Justin

I have a 0.9.6 site on an IIS server, the only time I get that prompt is for a password protected folder I set up.

I’ve done that before also, and that is the expected behaviour, however WebLogin triggering that prompt is odd. The site has annoymous access, so there should be no problems with hitting a url, and leaving php to decide what happens the user?

Is the presentations page the login page or the private page?

If it is the private page then trying to access it should redirect to the login page. I am guessing here, but maybe if the private page and the login page are the same it could be causing this issue.

hey dev_cw

This page is public: http://www.searchmarketingworld2008.com/login.htm
This page is protected: http://www.searchmarketingworld2008.com/presentations.htm

So http://www.searchmarketingworld2008.com/presentations.htm should just redirect you to: http://www.searchmarketingworld2008.com/login.htm to login.

Somewhere along the line the browser security prompt fires, and it spoils the show!!!!

Just curious, if you go the other way around, login first then go to presentation, will it work?

dev_cw - just tried it there, no luck. It does redirect to the presentations page, but the prompt fires again and I get access denied.

EDIT: Having closed firefox and cleared my cache I tried the above again and the login worked. I got redirected to http://www.searchmarketingworld2008.com/presentations.htm with no problems.

Got the same in IE, I was allowed to login, and then logout. The snippet worked fine, however the error still occurs if you go direct to a page in a private Document group?

OK, so we can narrow it down to that specific page. Here is what I think we know:
1) It is not an issue with WebLogin - this seems to work
2) It is not a redirect problem - after logging in it tries to redirect

Could there be a custom snippet on that page that is causing the problem or a request to a protected document?

Have you tried to protect another page in the same way to see if it is isolated to this one page?