Re: Can I increase number of authentication attempts before 401.3 error?

From: Tyler S. Robbins (tyler_at_casecentral.com)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:29:19 -0800

Bernard,
Thanks for the reply. I can't recall having seen anything on a client
(browser) that controls this. Do you (or anyone) know if there is, or if
indeed it's not the server that controls it?

"Bernard" <qbernard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%238PTlUumDHA.744@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> If I'm not wrong, this is control by client side.
> and in this case IE, so I don't think you can
> change the number of auth retry times.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah
> http://support.microsoft.com/
> Please respond to newsgroups only ...
>
>
>
> "Tyler Robbins" <tyler@casecentral.com> wrote in message
> news:105b01c39a45$9db76a50$3101280a@phx.gbl...
> > Is there a way to increase the number of authentication
> > attempts you are allowed to submit before you fail and get
> > the 401.3 authentication failed page.
> >
> > We have a situation where a client is intermittently
> > failing authentication to our server. While we are
> > investigating the root cause of this, we already have a
> > mechanism to retry this authentication request. Sometimes
> > the retry works on the 2nd or 3rd attempt, othertimes it
> > might take one or two more attempts. If I could increase a
> > setting to allow 5 consecutive attempts instead of 3, I
> > think that would be sufficient.
>
>

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