unwanted password prompt pops up on web server?
- by Paul
my web server randomly asks for a password as though basic authentication is turned on. It's an IIS 7 web server and you have to specifically install basic authentication in the roles section. It isn't installed.
The message that pops up is "Warning: This server is requesting that your username and password be sent in an insecure manner (basic authentication without a secure connection)"
I cannot reproduce the problem but a number of customers have reported the problem and it only seems to appear to a small number of customers.
It pops up when they visit the homepage, nothing is generated by the IIS logs to indicate a password box is being served (e.g. no 401 errors etc)
Can anyone offer any advice?
Thanks