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eblot
Dec 12, 2020Aspirant
Cannot login on GS105eV2
factory reset, then: admin/password does not work /password does work admin does work admin/1234 does work ProSafe utilty cannot be installed on Ma ProSafe utility does not even install o...
schumaku
Dec 13, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Looks all fine, except of the wget test - this is a Web form, not a http basic auth header - which can't succeed.
Reads or feels like a browser compatibility thing to me.
eblot
Dec 13, 2020Aspirant
> Looks all fine, except of the wget test - this is a Web form, not a http basic auth header - which can't succeed.
It really looks like a HTTP basic auth header to me, not a web form. The login prompt rendering is different from one browser to another, and curl (and Safari debug console) reports the following headers:
eblot@thurso ~/Downloads> curl -D - http://192.168.0.239/ HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Connection: close WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Switch" <html><head> <title>401 Authorization Required</title> </head><body> <h1>Authorization Required</h1> <p>This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.</p> <hr> <address>Web-Smart Server</address> </body></html>
If I'm not mistaken, WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Switch" is the basic HTTP authentication header.
> Reads or feels like a browser compatibility thing to me.
Well, it fails with Safari, it fails with Firefox, it fails with Brave, it fails with Chrome.
What browser is it supposed to .. not fail ?
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