Thread: Problem with Passwd Protected Page

I think I have this password-protect thing figured out: I go to the page on my site that links to the protected page and the username/password box comes up, I log in, and get right to the page I need.

The weird thing is that if I close the protected page, then click the link back to the protected page, I DON'T have to re-enter the user/pass, and I get directly back into the protected page.

I guess this shouldn't be a big deal, since the person that is on the page is permitted to be there in the first place, and the info there isn't national security, but I thought this was weird.

In Mozilla, I can close the site AND the browser, then reopen it and still get right into the protected page w/o the user/pass all day long. In Explorer, if I close the browser, it will prompt me for the user/pass again, then let me in and out of the protected page all day long.

It's late, am I making sense?

www.carspetrescue.org

Thanks,
Motoxxx's wife who is NOT a webmaster....

Correct link:

www.carspetrescue.org/members.html

Thanks,
Motoxxx's wife

It's common that when you close the page and then go back without closing the browser you'll enter the page without the need for the user and password, but it's odd that you closed Mozilla (I'm assuming Firefox?) and it still opened for you. Did you still have IE open when you tried the experiment with Mozilla? That might explain it.

I think I tried them one at a time, but if anything, I may have had Firefox open while in IE but not the other way around.

I will quick try them one at a time and see what happens.
Thanks for the reply at this late hour!

OK, I just tried them one at a time and it seems to be working!!! YAY for ME!

Just for fun, I'm going to try it again in the morning to be sure, because I SWEAR Mozilla kept letting me open it up over and over w/o the pass. even after I closed Firefox. I'll certainly post again if it acts screwy. (IE seemed to work fine, but I still won't make it my default browser-even though Bill's my Seattle neighbor...)

Many Thanks racefan!!!