Thanks Chuck. This approach works better, although I would think regardless of the auth form, the redirect to error page would be independent.
Any idea how to do FORM based auth from a Java client? I was using Basic like this: On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:04 -0800, Chuck Williams wrote: > Darren Govoni writes (3/6/2005 3:27 PM): > > >I only want it to forward to <error-page> on a code 401 _when the login > >attempt fails_ and it should prompt the user for that, which it doesn't. > > > > > Oh, this is for a login error? I use FORM authentication which provides > a form-error-page in the form-login-config. This is triggered for > authentication errors. I use separate error-page's for related errors > like a session-timeout while the user is on the login page (which > generates a 408). However, I don't believe the error-page mechanism > works for authentication errors, which is probably your issue with > BASIC authentication. How about switching to FORM authentication so you > have more control? Then you shouldn't have any issues (although it is > still a war path and not a url...).. > > Chuck > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
