Re: Keeping fields out of URL

on 7/23/01 10:55 AM, Shrout, Ryan at Rshrout@krauss-maffeicorp.com wrote: > How can I keep fields in a form out of the URL? > > I am writing a basic PHP/login script to password protect a directory of the > web site (if anyone knows of something pre-made, please do let me know). > If you're on a unix server you can use .htaccess A search on any search engine should pull up lots of info on it. > But, the first stumbling block is that when sometypes in their > username/password, even when the I use th INPUT Type Password so only > asterics appear when it is typed, the password still appears in the submit > query URL. How do I stop that? Change your method to "post" as in <form method="post" action="somefile.php"> Keep in mind that just sticks the variables in the header rather than on the command line. It's not any more secure than what you had before. Matt