My website is a https website using mod_ssl :
Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.24_01
 
This is what i have in my access.conf :
 
<Directory /path/to/directory/secure>
        AuthName       https://name.of.my.website/secure
        AuthType        Basic
        AuthUserFile    /path/to/password/file
        Require valid-user
</Directory>
 
Here is the problem.  When i click a link to a page in the directory, i come up with my login screen popup.  If i type the right username/password pair, it will display the page, if i dont, it comes up with a 403 error-forbidden.  This is all fine.  However, i was extremely surprised to realise that if i fail the connection to receive the 403 error, i can click the back button in the browser, then the forward button, and get the page...even tho i still havent even authenticated yet!!!  I am assuming that I am doing something stupid, but i cant seem to guess what that might be.
 
Thanks in advance for any help!
 

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