Is this an internet or intranet application?
As for a 'creative' solution, you could possibly try having your server act
as a proxy to fetch the data (and then serve it to the user). Most
server-scripting languages allow for making HTTP requests as well as
handling assorted headers, however, I have not tackled this problem
specifically so I do not know if it is feasible.
Additionally, if you have control over the protected site, you could modify
the Apache config with access control[1]. This would of course be easiest in
an intranet. If you're trying to achieve this in the wild (internet), then
using the server to proxy the request might be your best bet.
I'm curious to hear what comes of it.
[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html#access
On 5/1/07, Sean Catchpole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Simple problem:
I add an image from an external site to the page and sometimes the
site is protected by Apache authentication so it pops up a login box.
This is really annoying, any ideas on how this can be suppressed. All
creative suggestions accepted.
~Sean
