Authentication over SSL

[Russ Allbery]

Todd Olson <tco2 at cornell.edu> writes:

> I would like a way to provide a custom error message back to the client.
> This would permit me to offer clients to have read only access to news
> over a non-ssl connection, but when they try to post I could tell them
> to look at a web page that will explain how to enable SSL in their
> client.

It would be really neat to support something akin to Apache's
ErrorDocument in general, to allow the local admin to specify the message
to return for some of the status codes.

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