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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:15:54 +0100
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Thread-Topic: [users@httpd]  Re: htaccess AuthType Basic: some files get
 served without a password challenge!
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From: "Boyle Owen" <Owen.Boyle@swx.com>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: RE: [users@httpd]  Re: htaccess AuthType Basic: some files get served
 without a password challenge!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Peter
> Sent: Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2006 12:27
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: [users@httpd] Re: htaccess AuthType Basic: some=20
> files get served without a password challenge!
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> I received this back from my hosting provider:
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> "Thank you for giving us that information. It appears that the
> investigation is complete. We have determined that you are=20
> having problems
> with password protection with your .xls files because you can=20
> not password
> protect the .xls file extension with an .htaccess file in our shared
> hosting environment, as it is processed by Tomcat."

Aha!......... I don't recall you mentioning that your server was at your
ISP or that some of the content was provided by Tomcat... So not quite
so plain and simple, after all.

Anyway, it looks like your apache config is redirecting requests for XLS
to tomcat. Obviously, this will happen before any .htaccess file is read
(the file is only read if a request results in a file access in the
target dir). Therefore it skips the authentication.=20

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> Any ideas to circumvent this? Thx

If you don't have access to the main config - no.

If you do, define the Auth directives in a <Location> container - this
[I think] will get parsed before the redirect to tomcat. Or, implement
the password access in Tomcat
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/realm-howto.html

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. =20

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