Posted by Charles Hamel on 04/06/05 18:23

Hi

I am bulding a secure intranet.(php, mysql, apache)
I am using a session and Mysql to handel the user accounts. Everythying
works fine with that.

The client now needs to share word/pdf document with the registered user. I
created a secure directory using .htaccess for this purpose and it works as
well .... the user are promt to enter a username password.

Is there a way to bypass this login box so logged user would be able to
access the file, but the directory would still be protected against
non-logged user who would know the path and the name the file? I can deal
with one .htacces account (username pw) since all the file can be shared
with all the users.

I was expecting this to work ...
http://username:password@www.domain.com/safeDir/Word.doc but it isn't.

Any idea what I could do?

Thanks

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