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machawk1 / wail

:whale2: Web Archiving Integration Layer: One-Click User Instigated Preservation
https://matkelly.com/wail
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Launch WebUI button does not display Heritrix interface in browser in Windows #159

Open machawk1 opened 9 years ago

machawk1 commented 9 years ago

heritrix

machawk1 commented 9 years ago

Manually entering https://localhost:8443/ into a browser produces the security message (#125) but then asks for credentials through a dialog. IE (default for Win7).

machawk1 commented 9 years ago

See https://github.com/machawk1/wail/blob/osagnostic/bundledApps/WAIL.py#L546

machawk1 commented 9 years ago

IE no longer supports encoding the username and password in the URI: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489/EN-US

machawk1 commented 9 years ago

Relevant answer for detecting default browser, might be useful for conditioning on IE or, better yet, provide a workaround for IE: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19037216/how-to-get-a-name-of-default-browser-using-python