Last night, I tried to display a basic auth protected page but without any success because I didn't know the credentials. Obviously, I got a 401 Error.

Today, I was back to that page with the credentials but Google Chrome wouldn't display the basic auth dialog anymore. How annoying to have directly the HTTP 401 Error page right away!

I found the fix from this page and I'm sharing it here so it will be faster for me to get to the fix as it might be for you as well.

Anyway, from the command line (I'm a OSX user)

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