Re: [PHP] Re: Authentication with PHP and HTTP

2002-11-14 Thread BigDog
Just never do it period...that is the best habit to have... That is poor coding on the programmers part... On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:59, Maxim Maletsky wrote: > using this method for a production environment is incredibly vulnerable. > Just think of having a link on that page to some other site (o

Re: [PHP] Re: Authentication with PHP and HTTP

2002-11-14 Thread Maxim Maletsky
using this method for a production environment is incredibly vulnerable. Just think of having a link on that page to some other site (or even having a third-party banner displayed) on which there is a hit counter (and on 90% there are) those can simply read the link in their logs. Never ever use

Re: [PHP] Re: Authentication with PHP and HTTP

2002-11-05 Thread ed
I've tried both methods without success. header("Location: http://(user):(pass)@www.mysite.com"); does the transfer but I still get prompted for a username and password by Apache readfile("http://(user):(pass)@www.mysite.com"); brings a warning message. Warning: readfile("http://...@;www.mysite

Re: [PHP] Re: Authentication with PHP and HTTP

2002-11-05 Thread Silver
very true :) thx - I will keep that in mind... "Chris Shiflett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3DC71CBE.2050703@;php.net... > You can "hide" URLs by fetching them with one of your own PHP scripts: > > > readfile("http://user:password@;www.site.com/"); > ?> > > I think it might

Re: [PHP] Re: Authentication with PHP and HTTP

2002-11-04 Thread Chris Shiflett
You can "hide" URLs by fetching them with one of your own PHP scripts: http://user:password@;www.site.com/"); ?> I think it might be at least better than frames. :-) Chris silver wrote: you could use this URL syntax: http://user:password@;www.site.com to automatically log your user in to the

[PHP] Re: Authentication with PHP and HTTP

2002-11-04 Thread silver
hi - I'm not quite sure if this will help you, but lets give it a try: you could use this URL syntax: http://user:password@;www.site.com to automatically log your user in to the htaccess protected area. the bad thing about it is that user / password show up in the URL, but you could hide this inf