Re: using htaccess and html forms

> I have created a form that requires the user to enter their Username and > Password which I check against a MySQL database. Based on the user, > they are then sent to another page that is protected with a .htaccess > file. Is it possible, without using cookies, to pass this data > (Username, Password) from my form into .htaccess so that the users do > not get the Username: Password: prompt from .htaccess? I want the > functionality of the .htaccess, but I don't want the login prompt that > appears. Any suggestions? Not cleanly. You could proxy internally (fopen("http://$Username:$Password@$HTTP_HOST/$PHP_SELF?$QUERY_STRING")) but that'd be kludgy. If you must use both PHP authentication and Apache's authentication (it'd be best to rearrange things so you don't) you could switch your PHP login page to use HTTP authentication (See http://www.php.net/manual/features.http-auth.html); that way the browser would already have the username and password stored for that realm and would pass them transparently when requesting the .htaccess protected pages.