Posted by Robert Cummings on 10/23/05 02:45

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 19:28, Dan Trainor wrote:
> 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.

If you know the appropriate login and password then you can redirect
using the username and password in the url (not very secure though):

http://user:password@www.someplace.ext/blahBlahBlah.php

Cheers,
Rob.
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