Re: Bug #915: $REMOTE_USER is lost afer POST

that's it. got it. now it works perfectly!!! thx a lot chris Zeev Suraski wrote: > > At 19:22 14/11/98 +0100, Christian Cartus wrote: > >Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> > >> $REMOTE_USER is only set if the target page is set up to require > >> authentication as well. Are you sending the Authorization header from the > >> target of your POST? > >mmh, the page is in the same directory as the htaccess-file, therefor > >the Authorization-information should be sent by the browser. the > >Authorization itself doesn't fail, only the variable $REMOTE_USER is not > >set. if i use the GET-method everything works fine. > > It's most definitely not a PHP bug, but the POST method isn't being > authenticated. > Check if you have stuff like <Limit GET> in your .htaccess. > To ensure that the POST request is actually being authenticated, check the > Apache TransferLog file and see whether the POST request has a username in > it (authenticated requests include the username in the corresponding log > line; non authenticated requests have a dash (-) instead). > > Once you get the POST request to authenticate (which only has to do with > Apache configuration) - the environment variable REMOTE_USER will be > available. > > Zeev > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@php.net> > For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- Christian Cartus I-D Media GmbH & Co. KG Tel. +49-7365/960543 Dewanger Str. 22 +49-177/7644933 73457 Essingen-Forst Fax: +49-7365/5060 E-Mail: chris.cartus@idgruppe.com christian@cartus.com ICQ-Mail: 964898@pager.mirabilis.com ICQ-UIN: 964898 -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net