diff --git a/saltapi/netapi/rest_cherrypy.py b/saltapi/netapi/rest_cherrypy.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/saltapi/netapi/rest_cherrypy.py
+++ b/saltapi/netapi/rest_cherrypy.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class Login(LowDataAdapter):
     def GET(self):
         cherrypy.response._tmpl = self.tmpl
         cherrypy.response.status = '401 Unauthorized'
-        cherrypy.response.headers['WWW-Authenticate'] = 'HTML'
+        cherrypy.response.headers['WWW-Authenticate'] = 'Session'
 
         return {
             'status': cherrypy.response.status,
Changed value of authentication header; still arbitrary and custom