Thanks, that does help!!!

FletchSOD

"John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Scott Fletcher wrote:
>
> >     What is the function exactly for encoding the user's typed password
in
> > PHP after the HTTP Authentication pop-up window by Apache was submitted?
I
> > tried the base64_encode() but it is not the right function.  The
> > authentication header here is ..
> >
> > --snip--
> >      header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Private Stuff"');
> >      header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
> > --snip--
>
> Encoding it for what? It comes into PHP as a $_SERVER variable in plain
> text. If you want to compare it to an .htaccess type password, then I
> think crypt() is what you need.
>
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