Getting username and passwd from IE

[Andrew Clover]

mgb at mgbeckett.com (Martin Beckett) wrote:

>      self.send_response(401)
>      self.end_headers()
>      return

Don't know about BaseHTTPServer in particular, but in general 401 must be
used in conjunction with the WWW-Authenticate response header, or the browser
won't know what kind of authentication to send.

  self.send_header('WWW-Authenticate', 'basic realm="Fab site"')

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