Many thanks to all who replied.
1. I think I can summarize the responses so far as boiling down to how I
do session management (hidden fields, URL mangling, cookies) and that I
will have to develop my own authentication mechanism.
(The reason I hoped there might be a solution using Apache's
I'd like to authenticate users via a login form (username, password text
fields) instead of using the standard dialog box a browser pops up in
response to a 401 response code.
Can this be done while still using Apache's authentication mechanism?
I understand that authentication happens in 2
