[Zope] Authentication problems with exUserFolder

[Oliver Bleutgen]

> Hi all,

> I'm using exUserFolder to authenticate to a Postgres database.

> With certain clients, however, authentication information is sent only
> for protected pages. I have a fair amount of information that is
> available for anonymous users, and I use _['AUTHENTICATED_USER'] to
> determine whether to place things like "Edit Preferences" and the like
> on those pages.

> With Lynx, Mozilla 9.1+, and IE 5.5 (I think) the Basic Auth stuff is
> only sent for the protected pages.

> Any ideas on why this is so, and how to fix it?


IIRC, there was a discussion about exactly that on
this list some days (weeks) before.
The browsers don't have to send the credentials
continuosly to every page on your domain, I think

cheers,
oliver