Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/18/07 01:44

Gilles Ganault wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a PHP script rss.php that serves RSS to clients. It
> work fine, but I'd like to server customized contents, and for this, I
> need to know who the user is.
>
> Unless there's a better way, it looks like the easiest way is to use
> HTTP basic authentication:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_authentication_scheme
>
> So I figure I should have a section in the script that starts with
> prompts for a login/passwd, then fetch contents with a customized
> SELECT, and format it as RSS before sending the output to the RSS
> client.
>
> Has someone written this before and could share some tips/code?
>
> Thank you.

HTTP basic authentication/authorization is strictly between the browser
and the webserver. Your don't need anything in your pages.

Or you can implement your own (non-http) authentication/authorization
scheme. I've done several; there's not much to it.

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