Want to use Mozilla/Firefox with the built-in Visual Studio webserver?

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

After installing Beta 2 yesterday, I fired up our application and started working through some code. After verifying some layout code in IE, I launched FireFox and pointed it at the URL to the built-in webserver within Visual Studio. To my surprise, I was greeted with "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden". Ruh?

Previous copies of Visual Studio didn't behave in this manner, so I dug a bit in the Website option within Visual Studio to find that Microsoft as now enabled NTLM authentication as a default for the built-in webserver. Why? I'm developing on my local PC why would I want to lock my local webserver down by NTLM? Granted, the option should be there, but disabled by default. Anyway, for those wanting to disable this, just go under Website --> Start Options and uncheck NTLM Authentication

6 Comments

Why would MS want to make you go though extra-steps to use a competing product?

geeze.. I'll never guess.

kaniz - Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:25:00 PM

Perfect example of where folks will not always agree about what 'secure by default' means.

Alex Lowe - Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:57:00 PM

kaniz, huh? Competing? Since when did IE make Microsoft any money? This is a security config issue, it has nothing to do with what browser you use.

Jason Clark - Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:04:00 PM

What might be a solution that works for everyone is below the security error message state how to disable it. Instead of making people dig through menus.

Jason Clark - Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:08:00 PM

Good to know. Saves me from banging my head into the wall when I get back to VS2005 next week!

Jeff - Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:04:00 PM

Hey, can you post working link or write how to run visual studio webserver on mozilla. IE is so slowly !!

peete - Saturday, February 13, 2010 8:45:42 AM

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