[Phpwm] .htaccess auth question

[Phil Beynon]

> Hi Wayne (and others),
>
> The application that will be doing the posting is an Intranet
> application. There is a database that contains information about each
> of our projects (the sites our company is develops). The development
> site for each project has password protection. Most projects also have
> a developer tool site, a producer tool site and sometimes a Trac site,
> these all have separate password protection (we work with a lot of
> freelancers thats why the password protection needs to be fine
> grained). If you work on say 6 different projects in a day it can get
> pretty annoying having to retype your password all the time.
>
> Yes the browser could handle this but I'd prefer to handle it with the
> application if possible, I don't see the point in validating people
> more than once. Also the server password projection mechanisms could
> be changed but I don't want to mess about with systems already in
> place and cause myself extra work.
>
> Zend Framework's Http_Client sounds interesting as the app is using ZF
> anyway, although I am open to other suggestions.
>
> Thanks, Pete
>

Are you aiming for a system where if they have passed one level of
authorisation then all others are subsequently automatically opened for them
but remain closed if approached directly?

Phil