From: Paul Johnston (paul@westpoint.ltd.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 09:56:01 EST
Hi,
It's the same deal for HTTP authentication. The "Remember my password"
option only determines if it saves the password to disk. If you don't
select it then it still keeps the password in memory. All the browsers
are the same; this is just how HTTP authentication works.
Paul
Debasis Mohanty wrote:
>When IE is configured to access internet using proxy, the user's
>authentication details are cached locally without IE prompting the user.
>Even though the "save my password" option is not checked, the user's proxy
>authentication details are cached locally without the user's knowledge.
>
>
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