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[Kerem Tuzemen]

Hi David,

If you don't want to add any extra script(s) to your demo sites codes to
control access to them, unfortunately there's no solution for IE users.
Since they couldn't fix a bug  in IE (which allows people to change the
browsed web site's name appearing in the address bar), Microsoft recently
(Feb 04) disabled usage of the addresses of the format
http://username:password@www.sitename.com in IE.
They have been used to pass username and password to webserver for htaccess
based authentication the way you wanted to implement.

Kerem


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Yun" <dyun at blue-iceberg.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: [nycphp-talk] php authentication and .htaccess protection


> I'm working on developing a client extranet, and I'm having trouble with
one
> key conceptual/technical issue.
>
> In the past, our company (we do web design) has uploaded client beta sites
> to .htaccess - protected directories. We sent the client a link to the
beta
> site with a user name and password to login. Now, we want to send all
> clients to one site where they can login and be directed to a "project
> status" page that gives them all the latest info on their project and
links
> to beta pages/sites. For this part, I would like to use some sort of
session
> control/authentication.
>
> The problem is that the "beta" sites are not necessarily written in php,
and
> we don't want to have to add an authentication script to every page we
> upload for a client to view and approve. Furthermore, we don't want to
make
> clients login twice - first to the main extranet page, and second to a
> password-protected directory.
>
> Does anyone know a solution to this problem, or know of a way to pass a
> userid and password from php to the .htaccess protection?
>
>
> Many thanks,
> Dave
>
>
> ...............................................................
> David Yun, Production Manager  <dyun at blue-iceberg.com>
> Blue Iceberg LLC
> Website Development | Strategic Marketing | Business Solutions
> http://www.blue-iceberg.com
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