[thelist] Check for auth w/o forcing logon?

[Dougal Campbell]

Is there a way (ASP or PHP) to check whether a user has previously
authenticated on our site (Basic auth), without forcing them to actually
logon if they hadn't? In other words, I want to give them different
content, depending on whether they have previously visited a
password-protected page elsewhere on the site.

Or will I need to switch from basic auth to a cookie-based scheme to
accomplish this? I suppose I could set a cookie from *within* the
protected area, but I'm still curious to see if there's a way to detect
it without cookies.

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