Question

I am running a website on a virtual directory.

The url for the site is http://localhost/virtalDirectory/pages.aspx

I have an image to be loaded on the page from the following directory heirarchy:


parent directory
..images
....my image
..myPage.aspx


My img tag is
<img src="images/imageName.gif" alt="some text"/>

When loading in IE8, the images are loaded properly, but when loading in Firefox3 I am prompted to log into localhost and it appears to be a windows file explorer login.

I have a web.config in the images directory:

<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>

I have tried changing my image tag to:
<img src="~/images/imageName.gif" alt="some text" runat="server"/> to allow asp to resolve the address of the image at run-time. Which does not resolve the problem.

I have tried adding <allow users="?" /> to the image directory web.config. Which does not resolve the problem.

Answer 1

Have you checked the permissions on the file itself? Most likely, the file permissions are set to you vs. everyone, and IE passes the credentials along but Firefox doesn’t.