Authorization errors

Fri Sep 15 18:02:45 EDT 2006

Hi all,

I've noticed that the MapAgent returns a 559 error code when
authentication fails:

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Response Headers -
http://vm-jb-w2k3/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi?OPERATION=GETMAPIMAGE&
VERSION=1.0.0LOCALE=en&MAPDEFINITION=Library%3A%2F%2FSamples%2FSheboygan
%2FMaps%2FSheboygan.MapDefinition&FORMAT=PNG&SETDISPLAYDPI=96&SETDISPLAY
WIDTH=512&SETDISPLAYHEIGHT=396

Connection: close
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:52:05 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Status: 559 MgUserNotFoundException
Content-Type: text/html

559 MgUserNotFoundException

<html>
<head>
<title>MgUserNotFoundException</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<h2>The specified user was not found: asdddd</h2>
The specified user was not found: asdddd
Exception occurred in method MgSecurityCache.GetUserInfo at line 149 in
file d:\osgeo\mgbuild\server\src\common\manager\SecurityCache.cpp

</body>
</html>

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If you're going to use HTTP authentication, wouldn't it be more
"web-friendly" to return a 401 response instead?  This would allow
clients that support it to prompt the user to re-autheticate.

Jason