401 authorization required page coming up

[Ho]

I installed ie6 and all updates and patches for it.
Upgraded from ie5.5. Had NO problems accessing password
protected sites before the update. Now I get a 401
authorization required page coming up BEFORE I get a chance
to fill in my name and password. Cannot access my control
panel to update my website in ie6 because ie6 goes straight
to the 401 authorization page as soon as I type in the URL.
Cannot access most password protected sites. Get the
dreaded 401 page with NO box to let me fill in a username
and password. I believe my registry has been corrupted by
ie6 and some bad patches by windows engineeers. Anyone else
had this problem?? Sounds like windows engineers goofed
again with a really bad upgrade.

I've got 128 bit encryption, did the old fix ie6 repair
routine in windows settings. Checked for java enabled,
username and passwords on forms enabled; looked at all the
usual glitches in settings.

No problems at all in netscape. Can get into any password
site. No way in ie6 though. Can't even get to a page to
enter my username. Ie6 goes straight to 401 error page.

Ho

 

[H Leboeuf]

You may want to investigate some of the solutions/fixes on this page.
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/401.htm

--
Is this the type of error you get with you control panel?

"ACCESS DENIED." message when you try to use the Control Panel.
Extract the file rundll32.exe from the your Windows CD.
It may have been changed by some parasites. Use SFC.EXE to extract the file.

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I get a 401authorization required page coming up

BEFORE I get a chance to fill in my name and password.

Make sure that the following option is *unchecked*

Show friendly HTTP error messages

(Options, Advanced tab,type s)


Please enter the following commands in a command window:

netstat -s >before.txt

< do your test >

netstat -s >after.txt

fc before.txt after.txt >diff.txt

notepad diff.txt

Copy and paste the results of diff.txt


Try to minimize the amount of other network activity between those
two netstat commands. It would probably be a good idea to repeat
the test to verify that the results are at least similar. Unfortunately,
the statistics are continuous so "similar" means that each diff.txt contains
the same lines only and the arithmetic differences between the before
and after values are roughly the same after each test.


Relevant details which you haven't disclosed are what type of network
connection you have (e.g. dial-up or broadband) and whether you have
any other difficulties bringing up some pages. Also, does the URL
protocol prefix make any difference? E.g. does https: instead of http:
work with your problem site?


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle