From: Rob McCool <robm@netscape.com>
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: AuthTrans/Sending feedback to client
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 17:13:35 -0700

[asking whether you can modify the authentication dialog box to provide
the user with more feedback about why their authentication failed]

You can write a custom error handler which along with your
PROTOCOL_UNAUTHORIZED response would send the user a page saying what
happened, but the user wouldn't see it until he/she pressed the "cancel"
button on the "Authorization failed, retry?" dialog. Beyond this, there
isn't really a way to provide the feedback you want.

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Rob McCool, robm@netscape.com http://home.netscape.com/people/robm/
Stunt Programmer, Netscape Communications Corporation
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...

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