Netscape Navigator doesn't remember ANS Interlock firewall password
  Technical note:    10001
  Created:           05/11/95 by Trip
  Last modified:     07/10/95 by Brian
  Product:           Netscape Navigator
If your domain is connected to the outside world through an "ANS
InterLock" firewall proxy server, you may notice that the Netscape
Navigator will not remember your firewall password; instead, it keeps
prompting for the firewall password every time you try to retrieve a
page through the firewall.

This is because the only way to do authentication through a firewall
used to be to use the HTTP authentication mechanism.  This is a
troublesome approach, because the HTTP authentication was designed to
work properly only between the client and the final destinatation
server, not an intermediate proxy agent.

To solve this, get the "InterLock netscape_forwarder" patch from ANS
by sending a request for it to "ilsupport@reston.ans.net".  Netscape
1.1 and InterLock netscape_forwarder work properly together.

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