remain on the same page when cancel button clicked in sharepoint login

Question

hi all, in my sharepoint site, there is anonymous access. When the user clicks "Cancel" button in login dialog box, 401 unauthorized is coming. I want the page to remain on the welcome page of the sharepoint site with anonymous access, when he clicks cancel button. how to do this?

Answer 1

The dialog box you are seeing is the normal NTLM authentication dialog and when the user clicks "cancel" it is the correct behavior to redirect to a different page because the HTTP Request code 401 is correct in this case.

What you can do is write a custom error page for HTTP response code 401.

Custom error pages are kind of hard with Sharepoint 2007, see the following blogs for instructions how to implement them:

• Custom Error Page Adapter
• Custom 401 for MOSS 2007