Why not just use some form of webware-based authentication? You'll
get better control, support, and possibly security (assuming https).
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 12:49, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> Magnus Lie Hetland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > My memory is failing as to where PHP_AUTH_USER
> > > comes from;
> >
> > I guess that's where my problem is; initiating the authentication
> > process is easy enough; I just can't get the username and
> > password afterwards...
>
> It seems (as I think I remember from several years ago) that
> REMOTE_USER is the thing. When I thumb through the Webware manual,
> I see there is even a separate method for this in the HTTPRequest
> class: remoteUser(). (I assume this is the same as
> field('REMOTE_USER').)
>
> But there is no such standard for the password, IIRC. (I even
> remember a patch somewhere a long time ago, fixing this for Apache.
> I would assume the situation is different today.)
>
> But I can't seem to get the REMOTE_USER set either. Odd -- I would
> have thought that basic HTTP authentication was a fairly standard
> thing to do...
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