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Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Apache/PHP Authentication
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:13:55 -0500
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Hi,

I'm certainly not an authority on the subject, but it
feels like you need to be at a lower level within
Apache then PHP will get you to.

I would try to use mod_perl to do this, in effect
writing an Apache module in perl.

good luck,

Paul

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, "Griffith Feeney" wrote:

 >
 > I would like to use Apache authentication to password
 > protect certain
 > directories that contain mostly binary files. With
 > 1600+ users, I don't
 > want to authenticate against a text file, especially
as
 > there is already a
 > mysql database available for the purpose. The
 > webhosting provider doesn't
 > provide mod_auth.
 >
 > I'm thinking of using a PHP page to authenticate
 > against the mysql database
 > and, once a user is authenticated, have the PHP page
 > send the server an
 > htaccess user name and password. The latter would be
 > changed from time to
 > time, but would be the same for all users. High
 > security is not required
 > here.
 >
 > I've spent many hours reading around on the web on the
 > subject, but don't
 > find anything along these lines, and being a rank
 > beginner in PHP, I don't
 > want to spend time trying to implement this idea if it
 > is unworkable.
 >
 > Does anybody know of an implementation, or have an
idea
 > of whether or not
 > this could be made to work? Thanks!
 >
 >
 >
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