httpd.conf's 407 setting doesn't quite work

[Nancy Lin]

Hi 

I don't know if this is a problem w/ modperl or apache itself.

I'm running proxy server apache 1.3.9 and modperl 1.21.  I'm using modperl
to authenticate my users.  When a
user is invalid, my code does:

              } else {
                  loginfo($r, "AuthenSession::handler: bad password") ;
                  $r->note_basic_auth_failure;
                  return AUTH_REQUIRED;
              }

On Netscape 3.x, a little window pops up saying authentication failed, do
you want to retry?  Here's the part I don't quite understand.  If I
configure httpd.conf with 'ErrorDocument 407 "Wrong Password!', that's
what I'll see when I click on the Cancel button on that little popup.
But, if I configure httpd.conf with 'ErrorDocument 407 /error.html, it
gives me the default error 407 page.  I'm not sure why it's doing that.  I
would rather point this to an file than to write it in httpd.conf.

My httpd.conf has:

<Directory /opt/apache/http-proxy/htdocs>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
#require valid-user
</Directory>

<Directory proxy:*>
order deny,allow
allow from all
AuthName "Test"
AuthType Basic
PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenSession
require valid-user
</Directory>



Thanks

-- 
Nancy