Re: How to get authorization HTTP header from within an ActiveX co

From: Igor Tandetnik (itandetnik_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:09:34 -0400

"Innovactive" <Innovactive@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:351F7DDA-03DB-483F-9356-6CF8964D9773@microsoft.com
> That is right, but only IE knows the user credentials inserted in
> login dialog!
>
> So, after the user has been "recognized" by IE, how can the ActiveX
> control know which username and password were entered?

Ah. For that, you need to use URL Monikers and IE's IBindHost
implementation. That allows IE to handle authentication on your behalf.
See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/com/data_retrieval.asp 

-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles
Babbage

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