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AI-generatedElectron 'login' event fires repeatedly after wrong credentials — how to stop the 401 retry loop
Repeated auth challenges in Electron I'm handling HTTP authentication in an Electron app via app.on('login') . My handler calls event.preventDefault() and supplies cached credentials with callback(username, password) . When those credentials expire or are rejected by the server, the login event fires again for the same origin, and my handler keeps supplying
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