[Gllug] Http Auth

[Branden Faulls]

Luke Hopkins wrote:
how do I post
> past htaccess? Putting the user/pass on the url isn't an option here
> (http://user:pass@www.domain.com/script.php), are there some field names
> I can use (eg http://www.domain.com/script.php?user=username&pass=pass)?
> Are there 'default' field names for htaccess under apache?


You will need to send the users credentials in the headers of your 
request to the server. The format of the header is as follows:

Authorization: Basic [base64 encoding of "username:password"]

Be sure to separate the username and password with a semicolon

Undoubtedly there will be 2 beeellion ways to do this in PERL.In PHP it 
would look like:


$username = 'foo';
$password = 'bar';
header('Authorization: Basic ' . base64_encode($username . ":" . 
$password));

Have a look at the HTTP spec at: 
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#BasicAA

Good Luck,

Branden Faulls



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