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Posted by "M. Sokolewicz" on 09/13/05 20:19
Brian wrote:
> I haven't used .htaccess before and am currently having an issue with it.
>
> I have a site that has photos from various events on it. Some of the
> events need to be password protected to view the photos. They enter a
> password, it gets checked in the MYSQL database and then the php page
> tries to pull the protected photos from the directory that has .htaccess
> on it. Yet, everytime it tries to pull an image a username and password
> dialog comes up.
>
> How do I pass this information automatically when I try to get the
> images so the dialog doesn't come up? Or am I approaching this wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help...
Unfortunately, you can't pass along a username/password to apache in a
simple way. However, a different approach would be to create a script in
the same directory as your main script is in. And then call all images
via that script (eg. image.php?img=abc123.png). Then in that script that
recieves all requests for the images, basically file_get_contents() (or
whatever) the actual image file from the protected directory, set the
right headers (content-type mainly), and echo/print out the image.
Another way would be to limit the .htaccess allow to allow only images
without getting the user/pass dialog. I'm sure it's possible, but I
can't really recall how that is done. It will probably be explained in
the Apache Documentation :)
- tul
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