Steve Holden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since HTTP authentication is managed by the browser it's difficult to > integrate it with web application authentication: basically you have to > choose between the two. There's no way for the server to tell the > browser to start presenting the required authentication credentials > except by raising a 401 (not authorised) error response, which is what > makes the browser bring up its little popup.
It is not impossible though and in cases where you don't have a choice but to use a HTTP authentication scheme, use of AJAX may be the answer to still allowing use of a form based login scheme. See: http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
