It sounds like your browser is requesting the images before you put in 
the authentication credentials (hence getting a ton of challenges all at 
once.)  Password-protecting the directory containing your geobama 
checkout should fix this (by sending firefox a challenge before it has 
enough of the document to request any image resources).  I've committed 
a snippet (scripts/globalauth.conf) that does this for Fedora; if that's 
not enough to get you going I'll have to take a look in person some time.

-d

Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> Hmm.  So, things are still pretty broken, although crippling the
> javascript (something about automatically reloading tiles to avoid
> pink tiles?) has made it stop getting a bunch of challenges that crash
> firefox.
>
> What I've finding is that I'm not able to log in as staffer though.  I
> trust my ability to type passwords enough at this point to think there
> is something going wrong there.
>
> One difference between the local setup and the one one obama.kepp.net
> might be that I'm proxying all my requests with an Apache ProxyPass.
> Could that be making things harder to authenticate for some reason?
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:14 PM, David Winslow <dwinslow@...> wrote:
>   
>> Apache should be forwarding the authentication info (in both directions) so
>> that logging in to a local instance works exactly like logging into the live
>> site.  What does 'starts to break' mean?
>> Also, the only thing that's changed on the server in the last week is the
>> addition of a tilecache layer (which should have no effect on
>> authentication) and whatever style changes you've made.
>>
>> -d
>>
>> Sebastian Benthall wrote:
>>     
>>> So, I'm trying to develop this thing locally, and Firefox starts to
>>> break whenever I load the page.  I think it has to do with those
>>> challenges bouncing back and forth.  Yesterday I made some progress
>>> against that by sneakily authenticating against the obama.kepp.net
>>> version and then looking at the localhost page, but tonight that's not
>>> working. Did something change with the inclusion of that new targeting
>>> layer?
>>>
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