Remembering Authentication

[Ian Frawley]

Hi all   Is it possible to authenticate a user without having to use the unfriendly login box provided by browsers, without using cookies?   I have managed to authenticate a user once through some text fields on a HTML page but unfortunately this does not make the browser remember the user's authentication information. On subsequent requests to the same secure area apache requires that the user enters their credentials again.   Is there a way around this? If so any help would be appreciated.   Thanks   Ian