HTTP

["Beau E. Cox" <be...@beaucox.com>]

Hi -

I am learning Apache/pod_perl with the 'Eagle' book,
and am writing a mini HTTP server in perl as a learning
aid. Everthing was going peachy untill I got to Authorization.

Thru my browser (I've used MS IE and Netscape on W2K and various Linux
browsers) I request a page served by my server; the request lookes like
(from my log):

-  GET / HTTP/1.1
-  Accept: */*
-  Accept-Language: en-us
-  Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
-  User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR
1.0.3705)
-  Host: 127.0.0.1:8223
-  Connection: Keep-Alive

I serve the following:

-  HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
-  Date: Sat Jan 11 02:54:52 2003
-  Server: BC_HTTP_PlayServer/0.0.1 (MSWin32)
-  WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="WallyWorld"
-  Content-Length: 167
-  Content-Type: text/html
-
-  <html>
-  <head>
-  <title>Authorization Required</title>
-  </head>
-  <body>
-  <h1>Jeff, the instructional HTTP Server</h1>
-  <hr width="100%"></hr>
-  <p>
-  Wrong!
-  </p>
-  </body>
-  </html>

All browsers seem to ignore the

-  WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="WallyWorld"

header line and just display the page instead of popping
up the Authorization window and sending back the Authorize
header line. If I put Authorization
into a page served by Apache it works (of cource).

I've read the RFP's again and again and I can't see what I'm missing.
Can any HTTP experts help?

Aloha => Beau.

PS: Sorry if this seems OT, but it is in my mod_perl learning path!