What I have down is moved out specific auth handler down the chain into the
'fixup' state but it would be much nicer (and ituitive) to place it in the
appropriate position.

> On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 21:00, Stathy Touloumis wrote:
> > Actually, I DON'T want the browser to prompt for a
> username/pass.  I saw the
> > examples in the eagle book and they all seem to use Authz, with Auth
> > handlers using the example you showed.
> > Perhaps I need to modify the headers so that the prompt does not occur?
>
> I have the exact same problem. I want my AuthenHandler to decide if the
> user is prompted for a password. Unfortunately "the book" tells me:
>
> "By the time the handler is called, Apache will have done most of the
> work in negotiating the HTTP Basic authentication protocol. It will have
> alerted the browser that authentication is required to access the page,
> and the browser will have prompted the user to enter his name and
> password."
>
> Has anybody got an idea how to let a handler decide, if autthen. is
> required?

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