SAP Portal Drive store Password

Hello Portal Experts,
in the configuration of Portal Drive Connections there is a Option to preset username and Password. Yet the Password field ist grayed out.
Is this done by a Windows Security Setting ? How can I preset the Password ?
BR Matthias

Timothy,
My first port-of-call would be to find out why the OPTIONS request does not include the content-type field in the HTTP header (it's a violation of spec: <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html">HTTP/1.1: Method Definitions</a>).
I'd imagine that the reqest is being rejected by TAM because it needs to know the content-type to determine what to do with it...
Regards,
Peter.

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/people/sugree.phatanapherom/blog/2005/08/14/configuring-sld-in-sneak-preview-sap-netweaver-04-sneak
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