•  15-07-2021
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Question

I'm trying to use linux elinks text browser to go to a website. This site requires http authentication. If I press escape it and hide the login prompt once and then If I try to go the particular website again it doesn't show the login prompt again. I try "flush all caches" But it doesn't work until I close my terminal and get a new one. Is there any other way to get over with this?

This should be a simple question. But I googled and couldn't find a answer.

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Solution

I just tried this with links version 2.2 on Fedora 17. I went to a website that requires basic authentication, got the popup password dialog, hit escape, saw the error msg. I then hit Ctrl-R to reload the page and was presented with the username and password prompt again. So I hit 'g' and entered 'google.com', went to google. Then hit 'g' and went back to my password protected site, and I'm asked for the username and password again. So I can't reproduce this issue.

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