Using http auth to control access to..

[Anon]

Hey gang,

I've got a tricky little problem to solve:

A site I'm working on has several 'dynamic' (php) web pages... and I use http authentication to validate access /etc..

However, one of the sections of the site has 'documentation' in the form of PDF and/or HTML manuals. These are done by a 3rd party.. so I dont have much control over them.. but I need to figure out a way to make it so only autheniticated users have access to them. Any ideas?

TKS in advance.

[amcgrath]

You "could" link to them via a file and, if authorized, redirect them to the document:

1. /download.php?file=some.pdf
2. /download/some.pdf

In example 1, download.php checks to ensure the user is authorized to download $file, if so, redirect. The second example is the same thing, except multiviews is set in the apache configuration and the string following it the file being requested, it's just a little cleaner....