Posted by Dan Trainor on 10/23/05 02:28

Hello, all -

I'm trying to think of how this might be possible, but I can't seem to
come up with anything.

I'd like to make a login form of sorts, which would enable a user to
authenticate against. A simple HTML form, with a PHP back-end, where a
user enters a username and password. If this authentication succeeds,
the user is redirected to the protected area. However, this protected
area was originally protected by an Apache .htaccess-style "require
valid-user".

After authentication succeeds, I'd like to redirect the user to the
Apache protected directory, circumventing the .htaccess "require
valid-user" method - because the user has already authenticated by some
other means, and there's no need to re-authenticate against HTTP Basic
Authentication.

Anyone know if this is possible, and if so, how this might work? I'm
just looking for some ideas here.

As always, thanks for the time
-dant

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