[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > That's neat!
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