Hi all,

I am currently struggling with Safari’s behaviour where it re-asks for a user 
certificate if the server accepted optional certificates but returned 403 
Forbidden. I want the server to send the end user something sensible to explain 
what they should do, rather than just have their browser ask for a certificate 
they don’t have over and over (or they do have but they aren’t authorized).

So. I want to be able to send a 302 Temporary Redirect on authz failure, rather 
than a 403.

Looking at mod_authz_core, we have the option to change a 401 response to a 403 
response using AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure, but I’d like more than that.

I’m imagining a AuthzForbiddenResponse directive, which would override default 
behaviour as follows:

AuthzForbiddenResponse 401
AuthzForbiddenResponse unauthorized

AuthzForbiddenResponse 403
AuthzForbiddenResponse forbidden

AuthzForbiddenResponse 302 [url-expression]
AuthzForbiddenResponse redirect [url-expression]

Does this sound sensible?

Regards,
Graham
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