It's a 401 Unauthorized in both cases, but you also get a WWW-Authenticate header in the latter case.
Example from auxiliary/scanner/http/tomcat_mgr_login:
Reported via IRC.
Hi!
This issue has been left open with no activity for a while now.
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Removed the stale label.
Untested, but this is probably a legitimate issue.
Gone are the days of insecure Tomcats running rampant, yet it is still a viable, reliable and useful attack vector, and this module warrants at least the bare minimum of maintenance.
thanks @bcoles I changed it over to a confirmed label which stops it from being closed too