Bug: Give user a chance to reauthenticate if access is denied

I just finished working up a test case for which it was necessary to be TWikiGuest. That is, I authentiicated myself as TWikiGuest, with password, rather than simply using the default behaviour.

Now, however, I need to get some "real work" done and want to re-authenticate as myself.

I thought that I could do this by trying to edit my "home page", but that didn't work as expected. I get

 You do not have permission to change topic Main.VickiBrown. 
but I don't get an authentication dialog allowing me to prove I am VickiBrown.

If it's technologically possible to force that diialog to pop up, it would be in the interests of Good Human Interface Design to do so.

Test case

Environment

TWiki version: TWikiRelease02Sep2004
TWiki plugins: DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin
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-- VickiBrown - 17 Dec 2004

Follow up

Have a look at HowToMakeATWikiLogoutPage - this is a by-product of using Basic Authentication.

-- RichardDonkin - 17 Dec 2004

Fix record

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Topic revision: r2 - 2004-12-17 - RichardDonkin
 
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