Talk:Server.pl
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Here are some directives Apache uses when it deals with IE clients:
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
Might give a clue to it's little quirks.
--Rob 09:44, 16 Feb 2006 (NZDT)
Currently HTTP authentication is just base64 encoded username:password which is basically just plain text, so the password can easily be discovered.