[newbie]apache authentication questions

[Steve Holden]

grahamd at dscpl.com.au wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>>nuffnough at gmail.com 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!

regards
  Steve
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