<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Microsoft Word 10" name=Originator><LINK href="cid:filelist.xml@01C39EBE.1A483320" rel=File-List> <STYLE>@page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin: .5in; mso-footer-margin: .5in; mso-paper-source: 0; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single } SPAN.EmailStyle17 { COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-style-type: personal-compose; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-ansi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial } SPAN.SpellE { mso-style-name: ""; mso-spl-e: yes } SPAN.GramE { mso-style-name: ""; mso-gram-e: yes } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="tab-interval: .5in" vLink=purple link=blue> <DIV><SPAN class=666595521-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I don't like the thought of removing authentication from the nagios site. Besides, if you can't authenticate, how can you gain access to the cgis and acknowledge alerts?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=666595521-30102003> </SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=666595521-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Do you think it would work using the url: <A href="http://user@password:<site_name>/nagios/cgi-bin/statuswml.cgi">http://user@password:<site_name>/nagios/cgi-bin/statuswml.cgi</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=666595521-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Maybe that should be 'user:password@', I don't recall, haven't used this method in a while.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=666595521-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Either way, I think that this would be a better solution for gaining access to protected sites when using a device that will not prompt for authentication.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=666595521-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=666595521-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I'd test it myself but I don't have a wireless device that neglects to prompt.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <P><FONT size=2>Garry W. Cook, CCNA<BR>Network Infrastructure Manager<BR>MACTEC, Inc. - <A href="http://www.mactec.com/">http://www.mactec.com/</A><BR>303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile) </FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> DMelczer@WLRK.com [mailto:DMelczer@WLRK.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 30, 2003 2:04 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Cook, Garry<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] wap access<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=098490221-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Unfortunately, Garry, some WAP browsers will prompt, some won't. For example, I know BlackBerry 957 handhelds will NOT prompt for authentication, but will just give an "access denied". BlackBerry 7210 handhelds, on the other hand, will prompt for authentication and process it appropriately.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=098490221-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=098490221-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hence the need in some cases to remove .htaccess...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=098490221-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=098490221-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hope this helps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=098490221-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=098490221-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-Dave Melczer</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=098490221-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A href="mailto:dmelczer@wlrk.com">dmelczer@wlrk.com</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK@mactec.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 30, 2003 2:57 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Simpson, Doug; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] wap access<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=791285319-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I use it from my Motorola T722i. Works great, uses authentication, asks for username/password.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=791285319-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Are you not getting a username/password prompt?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=791285319-30102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Be more specific about "the .htaccess is stopping me from accessing any info" line.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Garry W. Cook, CCNA<BR>Network Infrastructure Manager<BR>MACTEC, Inc. - <A href="http://www.mactec.com/">http://www.mactec.com/</A><BR>303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile) </FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Simpson, Doug [mailto:dsimpson@friedmancorp.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:38 AM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] wap access<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=928042917-30102003>I really want to access my nagios using wap but the .htaccess is stopping me from accessing any info via a wap devise.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=928042917-30102003>Does anyone know a work around? </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=928042917-30102003>I really do not want to turn the authorization off.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=928042917-30102003>Is there a way to pass a username and password to the .htaccess via a wap devise?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=928042917-30102003>Is there anyone using wap to access Nagios?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=928042917-30102003>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=928042917-30102003>Doug</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=3><BR><BR>**********************************************************************<BR>Please be advised that this transmittal may be a confidential attorney-client communication or may otherwise be privileged or confidential. 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