[thelist] send HTTP authentication from PHP page?

Ken Schaefer ken.schaefer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 21:45:53 CDT 2004


On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:18:47 -0400, noah <noah at tookish.net> wrote:
> Theodore Serbinski wrote (06/10/2004 3:24 PM):
> 
> > When users are logged into our intranet, I want them to be able to goto
> > our webmail address and be logged in automatically. Right now, when you
> > click on our webmail link, MS Exchange asks for the username/password
> > combo. I wanted to make this connection seamless in PHP which would
> > already take their logged in username/password and send this to MS
> > Exchange so they could see their mail without logging in again.
> >
> > Looks like this won't work though, unless of course I'm implementing it
> > wrong. Thanks!
> 
> It's frustrating that Microsoft, rather than fixing the security problem
> that made this sort of URL potentially dangerous, just disabled it
> altogether.

Just to clarify - the functionality is still there - just disabled,
not removed. You need to set a registry key (on the client) to get it
working again.

Cheers
Ken


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