Re: "Invalid syntax error" on passworded sites...

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From: H Leboeuf (NoAddress_at_generation.invalid)
Date: 03/14/04


Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 08:46:38 -0500

Can this help.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831167
SYMPTOMS
Programs that use Wininet functions to post data (such as a user name or a
password) to a Web server retry the POST request with a blank header if the
Web server closes (or resets) the initial connection request.

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Henri Leboeuf
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"Norma" <norma@no.spm> wrote in message
news:Xns94ABA2AADC50EengI@193.110.122.80...
> After a recent "security update" (in this case "update" meaning: "we're
> too lazy to fix a problem, so we'll kill the whole protocol that it's
> related to"), I can no longer use username:password@website - I tried
> the suggestion with adding this to the registry:
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet
> Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE]
> "iexplore.exe"="0"
> "explorer.exe"="0"
>
> but it doesn't help at all - passworded sites still cause the error. How
> to get rid of this annoying new behavior? Do I have to overwrite some of
> the DLLs installed by that update with an older version, is that the
> only way (and if so, which DLLs)?


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