Little off topic so feel free to flame if your dignity has been remotely compromised.

I admin and maintain (amoung other things) an intranet Apache web server. For security reasons users are required login. I am using Basic authorisation (didn't have time to implement a CGI frontend). The conf lines are.. 
<Location />
    AuthName "APPLICATION LOGIN"
    AuthType Basic
    PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AccessCheck
    require valid-user
</Location>

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My Apache::AccessCheck module encrypts the users password and then checks it against a database. If they match I return OK, else FORBIDDEN or AUTH_REQUIRED. This works but if the user is not allowed in they cannot re-try. In fact they have to close and re-open their browsers (IE4 and IE5).
Ideally I'd like to give users three chances, can anyone suggest a way to direct the browser to ask for name and password again?

In reply to Apache AuthType problem by Jonathan

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