How to login to a .htaccess protected directory using a form instead of the normal pop-up window?

[MC]

How to login to a .htaccess protected directory using a form instead of the normal pop-up window?

Helps is appreciate...thanks.


-MC

 

[Need4Speed]

you could use php to do this...plenty of tutorials on google on how to approach it.

 

[tk11]

Embed the username and password in the url.

eg http://user:pass@domain.com/path/file.html

 

[MC]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
you could use php to do this...plenty of tutorials on google on how to approach it.

Originally posted by: tk11
Embed the username and password in the url.

eg http://userass@domain.com/path/file.html

Didn't IE has an security update that disable username/password in HTTP?

 

[tk11]

That's right, newer versions of IE did break the userass in url feature. There's a registry setting to enable it again though...

Back to php I guess.

 

[MC]

So any solution?

 

[tk11]

Read this http://www.governmentsecurity.org/articles/OverviewofHTTPAuthentication.php

Then this http://ca3.php.net/header

Then this http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php