WG 6, JAVA Authentication and Ban Lists

[ccsoft]

Hi,

When you have clients authenticating with Java and you ban particular sites through the WWW policies, when they try to access the banned sites instead of being presented with the web page explaining that the site is banned they are prompted to login again.. and again and again. This makes it confusing for the user as it appears to them that it is a login problem.
Do we have things configured wrong or is there a way to get around this?

Thanks!

Joan

[adrien]

Normally WinGate will only push the java login out if there is any way for a particular request that WinGate could ever satisfy it. If the site is banned, then it shouldn't be possible, and so the java login shouldn't even be shown.

So, I wonder whether there is something about the policies that is specific to the user - i.e. these sites are only banned for some users and not others?

Adrien

[ccsoft]

Hi Adrien,

I reproduced this in the lab when a customer called with the problem. I set up just the one policy (banning one site) that was applied to everyone.

Other than that the only policy is the need to be authenticated (via java).

Joan

[adrien]

OK, we should be able to find this one relatively easy.

We are putting out a maintenance release very soon. I'll see if I can squeeze this one into it.

Adrien