HELP: Safari fails to open page

[avinsen]

Hello,

I work in a corporate office where Windows is supreme. As a graphic artist, I'm one of the few who gets to have a Mac. Our Mac IS guy is forcing everyone to use Safari. My problem is that the web servers are all Windows Servers and they use an authentication method which is unsupported by Safari.

Now, Firefox will work on these pages and authentication seems to be no problem for it. It simply asks me for my login and password (and Domain) and promptly sends me to the page I want.

Safari on the other hand, simply tells me that I am not authorized to view the page.

Is there a plugin some which can help me with this issue? Is there a hack I can perform on Safari to accomplish this?

I've check a number of sites, including Pimpmysafari, all to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[fryke]

I'd write this in simple words to that IS guy. "It works in Firefox. It doesn't work in Safari. There is no workaround for Safari to work with this. Please let me use Firefox for this exact purpose."

[avinsen]

Sadly, I don't think its a matter of simple wording. This person simply doesn't want to introduce anything on the Macs. It comes down to having only one person doing the Mac support for a large corporation. That's right, one. Of course, given the limitations of Safari and the popularity and ease of Firefox, I'd think that any self respecting administrator would quickly adopt Firefox. But that would be logical, and I am speaking out of my depth (yeah right!) again.

[eric2006]

Well, if he wants you to use Safari.. ask him to fix it. Safari is a good browser, but it can't do everything. That's why there's Firefox.