Fwd: [PHP] HTTP Authenticaion Query

-- Forwarded message -- From: Ashim Kapoor Date: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] HTTP Authenticaion Query To: Peter Lind You are tired and not thinking straight. HTTP is a stateless thing: 1. > you request the page, but you're not authorized, hence you

Re: [PHP] HTTP Authenticaion Query

On 21 February 2011 06:27, Ashim Kapoor wrote: >   if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) { >    header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Realm"'); >    header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized'); >    echo 'Text to send if user hits Cancel button'; >    exit; > } else { >    echo "Hello {$_SERVER['PHP_

[PHP] HTTP Authenticaion Query

Hello {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']}."; echo "You entered {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']} as your password."; } ?> Dear All, Above is a code example from php.net http://php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php What I am left wondering is the SEQUENCE OF FLOW of logic here. Assume a page has ONLY thi