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Asked: 2026-05-18T01:53:43+00:00

Ok I’m following this tutorial for a basic PHP webservice server/client setup: http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=1186 Now

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Ok I’m following this tutorial for a basic PHP webservice server/client setup:

http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=1186

Now I’m wanting to add a user authentication and have the functionality working but wanted to know if the user doesn’t authenticate how can I return an http Status 401 Unauthorized?

I’m not using HTTP to authenticate (using user,pass and salt against a database) but have the functionality working for this. Is there something I can set to notify http that the user is not authorised? Or am I looking at this the wrong way?

Thanks for any helpful tips

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  1. Editorial Team

    401 is specifically designed to signal the use of HTTP authentication. 401 Unauthorized responses MUST include a WWW-Authenticate, but the opposite is not true.

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