On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Bill Stephenson wrote: > If a directory is password protected with .htaccess can you access it > directly with a web browser by passing the user name and password in > the url string? Something like this? > > http://www.mydomain.com/members/index.html?user=Moe&password=Howard > > or do you always get the popup box?
That won't work, because you're passing the parameters to the script, not to the web server. You may, however, be able to use this syntax: http://Moe:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/members/index.html Whether this will work depends on the server configuration. If that doesn't work, you may at least be able to send just the login name, as http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/members/index.html But note that embedding this in the URL is usually considered a bad habit, unless you have no problem with this information being sent across the internet in the clear for anyone to see. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>