When (accidentally) using the wrong username/password for

BasicAuth

in the

io.ktor:ktor-client-auth

plugin, the exception that gets thrown is a

SendCountExceedException

because the engine just tries sending again and again until the treshold is reached/surpassed. How can I change this behaviour so that upon encountering a

401

response code a more "proper" error (along the lines of "AuthenticationFailedException") is thrown?

Hi, @gregorbg. Could you file an issue?

Sure thing! :)