Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:07 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.webserver.util.requestAuth

on requestAuth (adrParams, realm="Betty") {
	<<April 10, 1998 at 7:46:54 PM by WMF
		<<This script creates an HTTP authentication challenge
		<<The realm name isn't important; the browser just shows it to the user
		<<Why should you use this script?
		<<Because we might support more authentication methods in the future, and this script could handle them for you.
	adrParams^.responseHeaders.["WWW-Authenticate"] = "Basic realm=\"" + realm + "\"";
	adrParams^.code = 401;
	return (true)}

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