I've got a Java applet that is created by an index.html page.
The index.html file is protected by a .htaccess file. When the applet loads, I am then prompted each time a new class loads for the .htaccess username and password.

Needless to say, this is a tedious process.

How do I get the .htaccess protection to work for disallowing unauthorized access to index.html, but not have the application's users prompted each time the JVM wants to load a class?

Server: Apache
OS: RH7
JVM: 1.3.1
The jar files are not stored in the same directory as the index.html file.