Browser authentication dialog when HTTPService fails with a 401 response code

[cybersnl]

I am using a HTTP Service to talk to a third party API and
passing username/password in HTTP Basic Auth header.

When i enter wrong credentials through my application, as
expected i get a 401 unauthorized response. But before the fault
handler gets called, my browser shows the authentication dialog
asking me to re-enter the username/password.



It happens on safari and firefox browser on OS X. I have not
checked other environments.



Is this expected? I do not want the browser to show me an
authentication dialog and want my application

to handle the 401 error.



thanks,

Sunil

[Zee_Yang]

this is really a browser issue outside the scope of data
services. my best guess is to use javascript in the html wrapper to
silence the 401 responses.

[terakus]

Is there any way to catch the 401 header response from HTTP
service or repress air from showing it? Using JavaScript will solve
the problem but I prefer to keep it all in AS if possible.

[Daniel_McQuille]

Having same problem trying to do BASIC authentication via HTTPService. Any thoughts on how to suppress dialog after a 401 is returned from server on a HTTPService request?