Problem Accessing Security-Enhanced Site with Internet Explorer for UNIX
Article ID: 185988
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 for UNIX
This article was previously published under Q185988
SYMPTOMS
When you use Internet Explorer 4.01 for UNIX on Sun Solaris
to access Web resources that require user login, access may be denied.
CAUSE
The February 1998 version of Internet Explorer 4.01 for
UNIX on Sun Solaris does not support Windows NT Challenge/Response (NTLM)
authentication. Basic authentication is supported in this release.
RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, the "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 4.01; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u; X11)" user agent string should be used by the Web
server to detect this version of Internet Explorer and alter the method of
authentication to Basic authentication.
NOTE: The SunOS version
number and the term "sun4u" in the user agent string varies based on the model
of the SPARCstation and version of Solaris that you are using.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the
Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
Additional query words: msieunix
Keywords: kbenv kbprb KB185988