Hi !

I'd like to make a component that forces the user to authenticate again. I founded how to do it in php, this is simple as that:

<?php
    Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"My Realm\"");
    Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
    echo "You canceled authentication\n";
    exit;
?>

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But I cannot figured out how to do it in mason. I tried: 

<%flags>
    inherit=> undef
</%flags>
<%perl>
$m->autoflush(0);
$m->clear_buffer();
$r->header_out->add("WWW-Authenticate" => 'Basic realm="RealmChain"');
$r->header_out->add("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized" => '');
$r->send_http_header();
$m->abort();
</%perl>

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But it just make my browser display a void page.

Could anybody can help ?

Thanks ! Jerome.

-- Nice photos of naked perl sources here !

In reply to [Mason] Sending right header to force http basic authentication by jeteve

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