Posted by Justin Koivisto on 11/06/07 02:24

yawnmoth wrote:
> I was trying to test the following PHP script and am having some
> difficulty:
>
> <?php
> if (empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) ||
> empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']))
> {
> header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Admin Control Panel"');
> header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
> exit;
> }
>
> echo 'PHP_AUTH_USER:
> '.htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']).'<br />';
> echo 'PHP_AUTH_PW: '.htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']);
> ?>
>
> When I try it on Abyss web server what happens is that I enter "test"
> as my username / password and then it echoes them back to me. On
> Apache, it just keeps prompting me for the password. It's as though
> PHP_AUTH_* is never being set. Any ideas as to why this is and what
> I'd need to do to fix it?
>

I know, I know... personal plug = bad taste.... However, I have done
some work with basic auth through apache/php and did a quick write up:
http://koivi.com/php-http-auth/

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