Posted by usenet on 07/06/07 22:39

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:40:34 -0000, Deane <deane.barker@gmail.com> wrote:

>Is it possible to *set* Apache credentials via PHP? I know you can
>read Apache credentials from PHP, but I want PHP to tell Apache that a
>session is authenticated.
>
>Essentially, I want to do with an HTML form what Apache accomplishes
>with a pop-up window.
>
>Why? Because in addition to authenticating them, I need some other
>information, and having (1) a pop-up window that auths them to Apache,
>then (2) an HTML form to capture the additional info, would be awkward
>from a usability perspective.

Check out http://us.php.net/features.http-auth

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