restful_authentication plugin and http_basic problem.

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So I installed the most recent restful_authentication plugin from github and ran into a frustrating problem... on Internet Explorer 6 and 7 I received a security dialog box rather than seeing the login view. When I clicked logout I received the same dialog.

I came across some posts on the web that led me to remove the following line (73: authenticated_system.rb)

request_http_basic_authentication 'Web Password'

That worked for the login view, but logout still showed the dialog. So I removed the format block around it:

format.any do request_http_basic_authentication 'Web Password' end

Now everything is working! :slight_smile:

However, I would like to understand what is happening here and WHY this worked. Anyone have any thoughts?

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Sometimes IE sends back a blank HTTP Accept header, and it triggers the 'format.any' block as opposed to 'format.html'. Try changing it to 'format.any(:xml, :json)' instead. That way it's only triggered for those two formats.