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Posted to apache-bugdb@apache.org by Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com> on 1997/04/08 06:10:02 UTC

Re: mod_auth-any/221: Authentification window skipped when 'ErrorDocument 401' defined in srm.conf (fwd)

The following reply was made to PR mod_auth-any/221; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: Laurent Alquier <al...@eerie.fr>
Subject: Re: mod_auth-any/221: Authentification window skipped when 'ErrorDocument 401' defined in srm.conf (fwd)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:02:22 -0600 (MDT)

 
 On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Laurent Alquier wrote:
 
 > I think I found a bug between Authentification and ErrorDocument 
 > redirection.
 > 
 > More precisely, I found out that when an ErrorDocument is set for the
 > error 401 like this :
 > 
 > srm.conf : ErrorDocument 401 /admin/denied_local.html
 > 
 > The access to a directory with authentification skips the
 > authentification window and gives the error page for Error 401 instead.
 > 
 > If the ErrorDocument 401 is not defined (that is, if we keep the
 > standard error message), the authentification is well done. 
 
 It seems to work fine here.  Do you have any special options setup for
 /admin/denied_local.html?  Try with a server using config files as close
 to those distributed as possible and without any special options set other
 than what is absolutely necessary.
 
 

Re: mod_auth-any/221: Authentification window skipped when 'ErrorDocument 401' defined in srm.conf (fwd)

Posted by Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>.
I wonder if the 1.2b8-dev fix for multiple ErrorDocuments affects this.

Dean

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR mod_auth-any/221; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
> To: Laurent Alquier <al...@eerie.fr>
> Subject: Re: mod_auth-any/221: Authentification window skipped when 'ErrorDocument 401' defined in srm.conf (fwd)
> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:02:22 -0600 (MDT)
> 
>  
>  On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Laurent Alquier wrote:
>  
>  > I think I found a bug between Authentification and ErrorDocument 
>  > redirection.
>  > 
>  > More precisely, I found out that when an ErrorDocument is set for the
>  > error 401 like this :
>  > 
>  > srm.conf : ErrorDocument 401 /admin/denied_local.html
>  > 
>  > The access to a directory with authentification skips the
>  > authentification window and gives the error page for Error 401 instead.
>  > 
>  > If the ErrorDocument 401 is not defined (that is, if we keep the
>  > standard error message), the authentification is well done. 
>  
>  It seems to work fine here.  Do you have any special options setup for
>  /admin/denied_local.html?  Try with a server using config files as close
>  to those distributed as possible and without any special options set other
>  than what is absolutely necessary.
>  
>  
>