Header Question

[Anon]

Lets say i have a folder domain.com/protected/ which is protected by .htacess.

I wish to redirect to the protected folder without the grey password prompt showing up. Is that possible?

I have tried to set $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PW manually but that does not work.

and also like this:
$auth = $user.":".$pass ;

$string=base64_encode($auth);
header("Authorization: Basic = $string");
header("Location: $protected");

This does not work.... any ideas?

[brandonschnell]

a) use fopen/curl to fetch the page on the users behalf

b) reveal the username/password:

header("Location: http://$user:$[e-mail]/protected/");

[Anon]

It's funny.

If I do it like this:
header("Location: http://test:[e-mail]/protected/");

It does not work, but if i copy and paste the url directly into my browser it works fine?
http://test:[e-mail]/protected/

[Anon]

Forgot to tell that if I do a redirection like this: header("Location: http://test:[e-mail]/protected/");

it will still prompt me for user/pass.

[vsego]

What if you use redirection with <meta> tag?