pass username to http authentication box with php

[jennyflower]

Hi, is there anyway to send the username to a htaccess set http authentication login dialogue using php? some kind of header to something perhaps?

Thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

Not sure that I understand you correctly. The authentication on the site is basic HTTP authentication, but for the credentials you want to use a HTML [tt]form[/tt] instead of each browser's own authentication dialog ?

As far as I remember from my old tests, that can be done with PHP.

Did you read "HTTP authentication with PHP" ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[jennyflower]

No, I want to use the dialog that pops up but I want to have the username field filled in automatically to a default username value.

 

[feherke]

Hi

No.

RFC 2617 : HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Olavxxx]

It *may* be possible to get PHP to generate a javascript which then can post to the login-form.

Not sure, but even if it's possible, this would mean the username/password would be easier to crack/read, since the JS will show in the html-code.

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However, what I *think* is possible is this:

http://blah:foo@yourdomain.com/hidden/haxxor.txt

I believe this works for the http digest?

Olav Alexander Mjelde

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