It's probably something really simple but I am experiencing some difficulty with a web project using ASP.NET/C#. I have one particular aspx page that is using several external javascript references (i.e. <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/somejavascriptfile.j
I tried to find information about this but couldn't seem to locate any relevant answers. Can anyone help? What I am trying to do here is so elementary and basic I'm almost embarrased to post this :-). In any case, I am posting this as urgent because I am on a very very tight deadline to get this done.
thanks,
Mike
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Thank you for the quick reply.
Unfortunately, this page is not using any iframes. It's a basic ASP.NET page. It does have a multi-view control on it but that's about it. There are a total of 5 script declarations referencing .js files on the page. Two of them reside between the <Head></Head> tags and the rest are in the middle of the body. All of the "src" properties contain relative paths to the .js files (i.e. src="../js/myjsfile.js").
Hello Mike.
As you indicate you have a problem with the web authentication.
Perhaps you have enabled built in Windows user authentication and therefore you do not see when your Windows userid does authenticate behind the scene for you to access the js files in IE.
If you have already a login request and are logged in but js files require an extra login, then you need to know how authentication works in http: it works in Realms. A realm is a forward slash level in URL path where all levels right to the slash are in same realm. So you have either to authenticate to root realm or move the script js files inside the authentication relam.
Ok I searched and there is no IFrame any of the .js files.
As for http realms...all of this is being done in my dev environment locally so all my tests of the site are in localhost, and for the time being, all the .js files are just sitting in the root along with the page using them. It doesn't seem like there should be any security issues here.
So let us do a simle test.
Put in browser IE address bar the URL to one of those js file, but not the disk address but the web server url path to that js file. You will be asked where to store that js file. No need to download it.
Next put the same URL in FireFox and you will see that you are asked for userid and password. Now why is this? Because IE knows how to reuse the windows logged in user for web purposes you are not asked for js access credentials. But FireFox does not have that ActiveX modul to enable Windows PC user userid for web, you see?
The solution is to put the js file in a web directory that needs no authentication for IIS, into public area, by configuring the access to that js directory with the built in Windows user IUSR_...
See here for more details: http://www.authenticationt
Well there you go. There are 5 .js files on the page in question. In FireFox, I put in direct urls to each individual .js file. Of the 5 there were two that prompted for authentication. I granted read permissions to the IUSR_ account for those files and it seems to be working. I need to just do a few more tests but it looks like that resolved the issue. In all my years of doing this, I've never run into an issue like this.
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by: gops1Posted on 2007-11-10 at 20:36:56ID: 20258100
is there any dynamic iframes created by your js? Probably iframes without source urls can cause problems.