Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id VAA15634; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:51:46 -0700 Received: from localhost by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA15565; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:51:37 -0700 From: Rob Hartill Message-Id: <199604220452.WAA03587> Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "ErrorDocument 401 prevents authentication attempts" on FreeBSD (fwd) To: new-httpd@mail.apache.org (apache) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:52:17 -0600 (MDT) Organization: Internet Movie Database X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2496 Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Another "bug" bites the dust... Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:27:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Cuthie To: Rob Hartill Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "ErrorDocument 401 prevents authentication attempts" on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199604190436.WAA12889> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, I started a long email detailing my failed attempts at making this work and much to my suprise (why I'm still suprised when this happens is a mystery of its own) I had not quite set it up correctly. However, the manifestations of an imporperly formated error redirection are interesting. I got everything from redirects (which I verified by wacking at the httpd port by hand) to a just plain text version of the URL (not the contents of the document the URL pointed to -- literally the URL). Anyway, I've gotten it to do what I want now and apologize for the spurious bug report. Cheers, Brian On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Rob Hartill wrote: > > We'll look into this. The only thing that springs to mind is a > flakey Netscape for Windoze browser. > > > > >Submitter: brian@systemix.com > >Operating system: FreeBSD, version: > >Extra Modules used: > >URL exhibiting problem: > > > >Symptoms: > >-- > >The "ErrorDocument" feature seems broken, or I'm confused. > >What I expected was that the line > >"ErrorDocument 401 /some/better/reponse.html" > >would generate a user friendly reponse when Basic > >authentication fails. What seems to happen istead, > >is that Netscape 2.01 (Windows95) seems not to ever > >even prompt for authentication. Rather, it just immediately > >goes to the error document URL. > >Am I just expecting the wrong thing to happen? Things > >work as expected (that is, the user gets prompted for > >user name and password to enter the protected area) if > >I comment out the "ErrorDocument" line in the > >configuration file. BTW: the ErrorDocument entry is in > >the context of a . > > > >Thanks > > > >-- > > > >Backtrace: > >-- > > > >-- > > > -- > Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com) > The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) http://www.imdb.com/ > ...more movie info than you can poke a stick at. > ----- End of forwarded message from Brian Cuthie ----- -- Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com) The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) http://www.imdb.com/ ...more movie info than you can poke a stick at.