Posted by Mike Willbanks on 05/24/05 18:22

Troot,

You could actually use dynamic tables and such with mysql unless they
are static pages. Then in which case you could write a small loading
system in php to just simply load in the images if that is what you are
worried about.

Mike
> Hi all,
> I previously logged a question asking how to automatically log a user
> into Apache Basic Authentication without displaying the standard
> username/password dialog from the browser.
>
> I have since come to realise this is not possible, I'll have to use my
> own system with session cookies etc. Kewl
>
> My question now is, if I'm managing the login with php sessions, whats
> to stop somebody coming along and directly accessing an image without a
> username/password?
>
> I should probably expand, what I want to do is set up a simple login so
> customers can login and view there own content, a preview. This
> obviously needs some level of security. I'm not looking to set up Fort
> Knox, but I would like a reasonable amount of security so that I can
> restrict who looks at the content. Can anybody point me in the
> direction of a reasonable solution.
>
> Troot
>
> ps My host (Apache based) has PHP, ZEND, PERL, CURL and control over
> Basic Authentication on particular directories. No MySQL or advancded
> SSL/Certificates.
>

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