[Catalyst] HOWTO: extend the Authentication tutorial example and redirect to original URI

Dave Rolsky autarch at urth.org
Thu Mar 29 18:40:51 GMT 2007


On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Bill Moseley wrote:

> This always makes me wish for a 4xx code that could be returned to the
> client but not force the browser to ask for authentication.  After
> all, the user is not currently authorized to view the page.  And the
> idea being that the browser would not cache the 4xx response.

Your wish is granted. If you return a 401 with an HTML body, it should 
work. They won't get an auth popup unless you send a WWW-Authenticate 
header.


-dave

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