Re: Basic HTTP auth prompting too many times

2015-04-07 Thread E.B.
> After some time, browsers begin to prompt for authentication > over > and over again (I guess once for every image, stylesheet, > script, etc?). > Or maybe it is prompting because the credentials failed, but > I don't > think so because if I hit cancel/ESC over and over again, I > can use

Re: Endless HTTP auth attempts without 5xx error? [was: Basic HTTP auth prompting too many times]

2015-04-05 Thread E.B.
Sorry I guess I meant 401 instead of 5xx? Well, same question tho. by the way, i changed to nginx basic_auth and when I enter wrong credentials, it allows me endless tries.  i'm was used to apache gives a 5xx page after three bad tries.  i gues

Endless HTTP auth attempts without 5xx error? [was: Basic HTTP auth prompting too many times]

2015-04-05 Thread E.B.
by the way, i changed to nginx basic_auth and when I enter wrong credentials, it allows me endless tries. i'm was used to apache gives a 5xx page after three bad tries. i guess you could refresh that and try again in apache too, but endless tries without a error for nginx? is there a way to chan

Basic HTTP auth prompting too many times

2015-04-05 Thread E.B.
Hello, I have set up HTTP auth using the auth_pam module (although I'm not sure that module is the problem - it might be nginx problem). https://github.com/stogh/ngx_http_auth_pam_module/ All works great for a while After some time, browsers begin to prompt for authentication over and over