Re: Authentication using Apache

Use telnet to surf to the working TIFFs/PDFs (without the .htaccess and with Location header). See if there are any other headers being sent by the server, and send those to make it work. I'm guesssing Content-Length and/or disposition or... Who knows what IE might be wanting... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Harries" <steve_harries@jsh.com.au> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 8:37 PM Subject: [PHP] Authentication using Apache > I have a directory of image files (.tif's), and pdf's that I want > to protect from general access but authenticate and retrieve using php. > > I've developed authentication code that works fine and I'm > using a .htaccess file in the directory with > > order allow, deny > deny from all > > to restrict access to the images. > > My php code is > > // completed authetication > // retrieving images > // for tiff files > header ("Content-Type: image/tiff") > readfile($file); > > // for pdf's > header ("Content-Type application/pdf") > readfile($file); > > // gifs > header ("Content-type image/gif"); > readfile($file); > > My environment is: > Apache 1.3.12 on RH Linux 6.2 > php 4.0.2 as a Apache module > IE 5 on Windows 98 as a client. > > I've found that this does not work for tiff and pdf files but works fine > for gifs, in other words it works on the IE built in types but not the > plug-ins where the browser has to start a helper app. > I can change the call to get images to; > > header ("Location: ".$file); > > and all file types work fine. Unfortunately this means I have to > break my .htaccess restrictions. > So I really have two questions here, either does anyone know why > my readfile() doesn't work or, failing that can someone give me > some advice on the best way to secure my images directory > using apache and php authetication? > > Cheers, > > Steve. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >