Apache authentication: Redirect on failure, reliably?

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Published on 2009-11-13T03:01:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 17:18 UTC
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I've set my ErrorDocument 401 to point to my website's account creation page, but not all browsers seem to honor this redirect (Safari).

Also, other browsers (Firefox, Chrome) never quit asking for the password and show the ErrorDocument. This causes a good number of users to give up trying after many password attempts without seeing the account creation page.

Is there any way to make the redirect more reliable, without trashing basic authentication altogether?

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