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To: Jon Tara who wrote (93)	4/15/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: Gorak Shep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 205

One more possibility - if Datek restarts their web server, then their authentication cache will probably be lost, and you would have to re-authenticate. This is not true. Authorization is an attribute-value pair in the header fields of an HTTP request. When you first try to contact Datek (or any host), your request does not contain this pair and the Datek server returns an authorization failure. In response to this, your browser then puts up the popup dialog asking for the username-password information and remembers it with respect to the domain name of your request. It then resends the original request with the included authorization information. All future requests to the same host use the authorization info saved by the browser. If you quit your browser, this information is forgotten. If you restart your browser and then try to access Datek again, you will again be asked for username and password. Since the info is cached per domain name, the browser must ask for each different Datek server. To sum, servers don't remember the authorization info like datek's username and password; your browser does. Servers are stateless. For completeness, the authorization pair is sent in the form: Authorization: username:password where username:password is base64 encoded

To: Jon Tara who wrote (93)	4/15/1998 11:54:00 PM
From: Bob Sage	Respond to of 205

Jon, Thanks for the help. I may have reloaded without realizing it. Will keep an eye on that. Bob

To: Jon Tara who wrote (93)	5/29/1998 12:04:00 AM
From: MStonek	Respond to of 205

From Bob Sage ... <<Had one problem when I tried to enter sell orders on two occasions where the password would no longer work. It had been fine before then on several buys and the asterisks were in the box. Any thing I should be careful of to prevent this?>> Jon, First of all, thanks very much for the super-express page. I love it, and I use it all the time. Regarding the above problem, it happens to me too every once in a while and I cannot pinpoint what's causing it. It happened again today. I just have 2 windows open (I use Navigator 4.0), one with the super-express and the other with Datek. When I enter an order on one screen I check the message on the other to see if the trade was executed OK. Today, after entering trades successfully for several hours, all of a sudden it wouldn't accept the password any more. [Usually the password I enter just once, for the first trade]. Even after deleting the password field and re-keying it, it wouldn't take it. I had to clear the trade and the password and re-enter all the info again, for Datek to accept the password as valid. Sounds strange, but it happened. Do you have any clue about this? Thanks again for your help. Mike.