LDAP and .htaccess

Hello all- I am looking for a way to protect a directory's contents by authenticating against Active Directory via LDAP. I currently have a nice little php script that tries to bind to LDAP via a username and password entered in a form. If it fails to bind, the user is denied access. If it succeeds in binding, it then checks to make sure the user is part of a specified group. It works wonderfully, but the problem I've run in to (obviously) is that the plain files (.pdf, images, etc) are not protected in any manner. I know you can use php to authenticate against a .htaccess file, and that you can use mod_auth_ldap (I'm using apache 1.3) to authenticate against LDAP. I would like to avoid using mod_auth_ldap if possible because it requires credentials to be stored in it, thus making the code less portable and more insecure. Is there any way to use some type of php trickery to protect all of the contents of a given directory? Thanks! Bret Walker

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