FP2000: Password Prompt is Displayed More than Once When a Read-Only File is Opened

When you use FrontPage to open a read-only file from a web server, you receive more than one password prompt. Password prompts may continue even after you have chosen to open the file as read-only.

Each time FrontPage makes a separate request to the server for a file that FrontPage can edit, you will be prompted for a user name and password, unless you have already connected to the server with a valid user name and password.

Examples

• If you open a frame set (as read-only) that contains three individual frames, you will receive three additional user name and password prompts.
• If a single file is formatted with an external Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file, there will be a password prompt for the single file and a separate password prompt for the CSS formatting file.

NOTE: Images in the requested file do not increase the number of password prompts.

In Active Server Pages, virtual includes (<!--#include...) will increase the number prompts if the file that is included is linked to files which FrontPage can edit.

FrontPage include components will increase the number of password prompts once for the page you have included and once for each file that is linked to from the include file which FrontPage can edit.

After you are prompted to open the page as read-only, click Cancel to each user name and password prompt.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.