On 25 Jan 99, at 9:51, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
server. The current implementations of HTTP do not allow for long-lived connections, so the browser sends the user name and password with each request. (The browser makes it so that the user only needs to enter it once, though.)
I don't think this is entirely true. http does allow the client and server to agree to keep the connection open. You can see this happening between iexploder and iis... Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax netmeeting: ils://ils.murkworks.com ICQ: 14856937 We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths, for the byways and low places of life, if we would learn truths by strong contrasts; and in hovels, in forecastles, and among our own outcasts in foreign lands, see what has been wrought upon our fellow-creatures by accident, hardship, or vice. - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. 1836