Hi,

IIS raises login dialog box prompt on browser for
resources protected using basic authentication. That login
prompt gives user 3 attempts to enter correct
userid/password. IIS throw 401.1 error if third attempt
fails. Does anyone know how to change this number of
attempts. Is it possible or impossible to do ?

Thanks

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| Hi,
|
| IIS raises login dialog box prompt on browser for
| resources protected using basic authentication. That login
| prompt gives user 3 attempts to enter correct
| userid/password. IIS throw 401.1 error if third attempt
| fails. Does anyone know how to change this number of
| attempts. Is it possible or impossible to do ?
|
| Thanks
|

Hi Mane,

This behaviour is comming from the client not IIS.

It is the Client Browser (IE)  which decieds after three attempts of
providing Basic credientials that it will display the 401.1 error message.

If we look in a network trace we will see that IIS responds back to the
client with the same 401.1 response for each request.

I am not aware of this being a configurable setting for Internet Explorer
but it would be possible to write a client that could configure the number
of attemps.

HTH,
Andrew

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