Re: [aclug-L] how to drop netscape authentication

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For just testing authentication, why not use lynx?  Lynx obviously won't
show you all the fancy features of your web page (assuming you have some),
but it WILL ask for login names and passwords to authenticate.

It's a lot quicker to exit and restart Lynx than to exit and restart
Netscape...

That's how I test authenticated web pages, anyway....


On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Jeff wrote:

> Good morning, y'all :)
> 
> Thought I'd probe the minds here before plowing through netscape's
> *cough* documentation *cough*
> 
> I'm using apache's .htaccess authorization to restrict access to
> certain places ... some require just a valid user, other's certain
> groups.
> 
> Works all fine & good.
> 
> For testing, though, I'd like to be able to try certain things as mere
> mortal users, and others as a priviledged user.  Trouble is, once you
> authenticate, netscape keeps that around.  Right now I'm having to
> quit netscape & load it back up in order to switch.
> 
> Anyone know
> 1) if it's possible to switch $REMOTE_USER without quitting netscape
> 2) and if so, how to
> 
> Thanks; I'll post the answer if & when I find it, or if I find it's
> simply not possible.
> 
> -jeff
> -- 
> "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'."
> --Jack Cohen
> 
> 

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