>> On reflection, I've stopped being bothered by the
>> redirect-to-signin-page approach. (It only needs to happen once per
>> browser session, anyway.) Can we try that? --[[schmonz]]
+
+Here is an attempt. With this httpauth will only redirect to the
+`cgiauth_url` when a page is edited, and it will defer to other plugins
+like anonok first. I have not tested this. --[[Joey]]
+
+<pre>
+diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm
+index 127c321..c181164 100644
+--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm
++++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm
+@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ use IkiWiki 3.00;
+ sub import {
+ hook(type => "getsetup", id => "httpauth", call => \&getsetup);
+ hook(type => "auth", id => "httpauth", call => \&auth);
++ hook(type => "canedit", id => "httpauth", call => \&canedit,
++ last => 1);
+ }
+
+ sub getsetup () {
+@@ -33,10 +35,20 @@ sub auth ($$) {
+ if (defined $cgi->remote_user()) {
+ $session->param("name", $cgi->remote_user());
+ }
+- elsif (defined $config{cgiauthurl}) {
++}
++
++sub canedit ($$$) {
++ my $page=shift;
++ my $cgi=shift;
++ my $session=shift;
++
++ if (! defined $cgi->remote_user() && defined $config{cgiauthurl}) {
+ IkiWiki::redirect($cgi, $config{cgiauthurl}.'?'.$cgi->query_string());
+ exit;
+ }
++ else {
++ return undef;
++ }
+}
+
+ 1
+</pre>