Ross Boylan wrote: ... I've seen mention of apache using a login page, rather than the usual popup. Is there a way to do that? It might have a nicer feel for users.
The usual popup is built into each browser. It appears only when the HTTP server is requesting a Basic or Digest type of authentication. Both of these are built into every browser, along with the popup window.
For any other login-based authentication scheme, the server side is on its own, and can decide to send any html page or whatever to ask the user for his id and password or whatever. Basically in that case, the browser doesn't even "know" that it is "doing authentication". For the browser, this is just a html form to be filled-in and submitted.
Depending on the authentication scheme, it may even be that the login form comes from a different server than the server the user tried to access in the first place, and is submitted to yet another different server. And that this third server then redirects the browser to the original server, but with a modified URL.
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