Merge pull request prometheus#6 from kesselborn/basic-auth-fix

Tell clients to authenticate with basic auth
ywwg · Jan 9, 2013 · e9b12f3 · e9b12f3
2 parents 872a959 + 0f7fe64
commit e9b12f3
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diff --git a/registry.go b/registry.go
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ func (register *Registry) YieldBasicAuthExporter(username, password string) http
  if authenticated {
  exporter.ServeHTTP(w, r)
  } else {
- http.Error(w, "access forbidden", 403)
+ w.Header().Add("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic")
+ http.Error(w, "access forbidden", 401)
  }
  })
 }