HTTP User Authentication...

Hey there all, apologies for being off-topic (had to change my subject because the filter blocked me!), but I thought someone here may have worked with this before since authentication and DBs tend to go hand-in-hand. Here's my situation; I have a web-based text editor, which requires a user/pass combo to access it, this is controlled via PHP's very cool $PHP_AUTH_USER/$PHP_AUTH_PW variables and 401 headers. this section does not allow a user called "admin" to access it. That works fine on its own I also have an admin section for the administrator, where they can configure users, access levels etc, which allows *only* a user called "admin" with the right password, again using $PHP_AUTH_USER etc. This section also works fine on its own. The problems only appear when you open a browser, access the normal area (as anyone except admin) then access the admin area, then go back to the normal area. When you do this, it continually requests a user/pass combo to access that area, every time you request a new page - it seems to not cache the user/pass combo in this case... any suggestions would be nmost, most appreciated!! :) thanks beau -- Beau F Lebens, Technical Officer Science and Mathematics Education Centre Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987 Perth, Western Australia 6845 t: +61 8 9266-7297 (has voice-mail) f: +61 8 9266-2503 (ATT: Beau Lebens) e: b.lebens@curtin.edu.au w: http://learnt.smec.curtin.edu.au/