Posted by haggis on 04/06/06 01:23

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:59:51 -0700, Adam
<adam@myemailaddress.is.invalid> wrote:

>>>In article <9j2u22tdn304qe0vft3bv9r7r2qkcu33hv@4ax.com>
>>>Adam <adam@myemailaddress.is.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm a PHP newbie, so bear with me while I try to make sense.
>>>>
>>>>I have a request from my friend to help him in using an .htaccess based
>>>>security, which is already setup to protect a directory on the server
>>>>(Red Hat Linux, Apache 1.3.33, PHP 4.3.10), and only allow authenticated
>>>>users to read pages in that directory.
>>>>
>>>>I was trying to convince him to move to an MySQL/PHP session based
>>>>authentication, but that is not possible currently, and is considered
>>>>for the future.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Basically he wants to force the authentication through a form that users
>>>>can input their login information and checked against what they have
>>>>already in .htaccess and if the information is correct they will be
>>>>redirected to the page in the directory already protected by the
>>>>.htaccess without the browser's login dialog box, and if the information
>>>>is wrong then they would be asked to enter it again, without the
>>>>browser's box.
>>>>
>>>>Can this be done?
>>>>I've read all the HTTP authentication tutorials that I have found, and
>>>>couldn't see something like this.
>>>>
>>>>I would appreciate any help or clues.
>>>>
>>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>>Did I ask a stupid question or a boringly repeated one?
>>>I would appreciate any pointers.
>>>
>>>Thank you.

I came across this
http://wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess7.shtml
in my Bookmarks, so I suppose that, some time in the distant past,
I must have had ideas on researching the topic.
HTH.
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