In my applet I am using the following code to Authenticate access to all URLs accessed with the Applet.

			

			

				try {
				

			
			

				sourceURL = new URL(URLString);
				

			
			

				}
				

			
			

				catch (java.net.MalformedURLException me) { }
				

			
			

				String encoding = new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode(authentication.getBytes());
				

			
			

				try {
				

			
			

				sourceConnection = sourceURL.openConnection();
				

			
			

				}
				

			
			

				catch (java.io.IOException ie) { }
				

			
			

				sourceConnection.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
				

			
		

In my particular case I am retrieving XML from ASP pages. The problem I am having is that sometimes this method of authentication is being ignored, and the Applet doesn't seem to then prompt the user for authentication.

Basically I'm just wondering whether anyone has seen this phenomena before, and if so, how did they fix it?

Cheers!

Kyle