[thelist] send HTTP authentication from PHP page?

Courtenay court3nay at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 13:15:53 CDT 2004


Switch to coldfusion ;)


On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:29:54 -0400, noah <noah at tookish.net> wrote:
> apathetic wrote (06/10/2004 12:56 PM):
> > On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:11:44 -0400, Theodore Serbinski
> > <tserbinski at washsq.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all, does anyone know if is possible for a PHP page to send the
> >>correct headers to login to another page that requires HTTP
> >>authentication?
> >
> > Access the page using this form of URL:
> > http://username:password@www.yoursite.com/
> 
> Unfortunately, this won't work in versions of IE/Windows with a recent
> security update . See here:
> 
> <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q834489>
> 
> I don't know of another way to do what you want to do, but if you find
> one I'd like to hear about it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Noah
> 
> 
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