[PHP] Using PHP-based form authentication, circumventing existing Apache .htaccess require valid-user

2005-10-22 Thread Dan Trainor
Hello, all - I'm trying to think of how this might be possible, but I can't seem to come up with anything. I'd like to make a login form of sorts, which would enable a user to authenticate against. A simple HTML form, with a PHP back-end, where a user enters a username and password. If

Re: [PHP] Using PHP-based form authentication, circumventing existing Apache .htaccess require valid-user

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 19:28, Dan Trainor wrote: Hello, all - I'm trying to think of how this might be possible, but I can't seem to come up with anything. I'd like to make a login form of sorts, which would enable a user to authenticate against. A simple HTML form, with a PHP back-end,

Re: [PHP] Using PHP-based form authentication, circumventing existing Apache .htaccess require valid-user

2005-10-22 Thread Dan Trainor
Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 19:28, Dan Trainor wrote: Hello, all - I'm trying to think of how this might be possible, but I can't seem to come up with anything. I'd like to make a login form of sorts, which would enable a user to authenticate against. A simple HTML form,

Re: [PHP] Using PHP-based form authentication, circumventing existing Apache .htaccess require valid-user

2005-10-22 Thread Richard Lynch
You USED to be able to do that by putting http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] but then Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, decided that was a security risk and stopped supporting it. AFAIK, there's no way to SET the USER/PASS from server to browser... H. You could maybe use cURL to login,

Re: [PHP] Using PHP-based form authentication, circumventing existing Apache .htaccess require valid-user

2005-10-22 Thread Dan Trainor
Richard Lynch wrote: You USED to be able to do that by putting http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] but then Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, decided that was a security risk and stopped supporting it. AFAIK, there's no way to SET the USER/PASS from server to browser... H. You could