Can't speak for what is happenning on the backend but I know that w/out
the auth param I was constantly greeted w/ a dialog box to input my
password and userid whether it was in the URL or not. And then it would
never accept it.
Patrick Scott Pierce
pspierce@mindspring.com
CGI Programming
Mindspring Enterprises
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Peter T Mount wrote:
> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 10:04:55 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Peter T Mount <postgresdev@maidast.demon.co.uk>
> To: Patrick Scott Pierce <pspierce@slacker.design.mindspring.net>
> Cc: Pierre Habraken <Pierre.Habraken@ujf-grenoble.fr>,
> Aaron Dunlop <dunlopa@adscomputers.com>,
> pgsql-questions@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: Re: [QUESTIONS] Accessing Postgresfrom JBuilder using JDBC
>
> On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Patrick Scott Pierce wrote:
>
> > You did use it '-i' switch in starting postmaster, right? (sorry if you
> > have already gone through that one).
> >
> > Also, I don't use the user and password fields but instead supply it in
> > the URL, like so:
> > jdbc:postgresql://some.domain.somewhere.com/database?user=postgres&password=something&auth=password
>
> the auth parameter is no longer valid for the 6.3 driver, as the backend
> now supplies this information on connection.
>
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