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Sven Berg Ryen	Friday 12 March 2004 10:17:16 am When attempting to view a "wmv"/Windows Media Video file in a password protected section of a site, all that is sent back to the Windows Media Plugin is a login screen. This causes the plugin to give errors, as it gets "text/html" rather than the expected video content. The user is properly logged in, and a .mov (QuickTime) file on the same page works without any problems. The file is uploaded to the server, and when I manually enter the address to the file into the address bar in the browser, the file downloads without showing any login screen. Is there any workaround? I also filed a bug on this, FYI. Cheers, Sven Ryen sven.ryen at maxus.no
Bård Farstad	Friday 26 March 2004 7:37:15 am I think this is related to roles. The browser actually fetches the file from the embedded video viewer and hence you are identified as anonymous (not logged in). You need to make the anonymous user be able to see these objects. --bård Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

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Friday 12 March 2004 10:17:16 am

When attempting to view a "wmv"/Windows Media Video file in a password protected section of a site, all that is sent back to the Windows Media Plugin is a login screen.

This causes the plugin to give errors, as it gets "text/html" rather than the expected video content.

The user is properly logged in, and a .mov (QuickTime) file on the same page works without any problems.

The file is uploaded to the server, and when I manually enter the address to the file into the address bar in the browser, the file downloads without showing any login screen.

Is there any workaround? I also filed a bug on this, FYI.

Cheers,

Sven Ryen
sven.ryen at maxus.no

Bård Farstad

Friday 26 March 2004 7:37:15 am

I think this is related to roles. The browser actually fetches the file from the embedded video viewer and hence you are identified as anonymous (not logged in). You need to make the anonymous user be able to see these objects.

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc