.htaccess and passing username and pwrd

[Anon]

Hallo again peeps..

Is it possible to pass the htpasswd username and password to a .htaccess protected directory "SERVER SIDE" definately no client side..

My problem is.. I need a html form based login to a protected directory as the content is precious... the user must not be able to download the content without logging in.. I would store the "goods" in a db, but in this case it wouldnt work..

Thanks in advance for your reply..

Carl

[aleph_x]

I think Carl and I share the same problem. In case mine is a little different let me explain my situation and hopefully someone can help us both.

I have a website protected via an .htaccess schema. I have a login page that manually autenticates users using the .htpasswd file. The problem is that after the verification succeeds and I allow the user into the site, the .htaccess popup still prompts the user for their username/passwd again.

Currently to get around this problem, i'm passing the login info using

http://myuser:[e-mail]

Obviously this is not very secure. Is there another way to manually pass (on server side as Carl said) .htaccess the username password pair so it doesn't give the popup?