I wondered about that myself but it all came to naught. Several avenues
are available:
1). Use php. This is the direction I've chosen. All you need is to drop
an include to your validation routine at the top of each secured page.
Your validation routine will have to check the .htaccess files by hand.
Use php4 and you get session support to keep track of your users through
the site.
2). Use a custom authentication routine. There is a module for Apache to
call an external program for this. Alternatively somewhere on the 'net
is a perl authentication module which can be customised.
I'll go into further detail off-list if you're interested.
Kevin
===== Original Message from K Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at 14/04/01 15:31
>Hello everyone,
>
>This is kind of a weird question, but I need to know if and how this can be
>done. I have a client that currently uses the webserver (on apache that is
>the .htaccess files) to autheticate the users. Well, the users are not
>wanting to have the popup box that prompts them for their username and
>password, they'd rather have an HTML form inside a page. I've never heard
>of doing it this way, but I'm sure there is - I just don't know it.
>
>Any ideas how I can do webserver authentication via a web form?
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