Please help if you know how to authenticate users using
HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized headers tag. I have been searching far and wide on the net and can't find a straight answer or code that works. If you know how to do this on IIS and IE 6, please send me an email to a link or some sample code.
Many thanks in advance,
Ben Daniel
If you have access to your server you can simply remove the user account permissions from the folder(s) for the Anonymous Web User (usually the IUSR_computername account)
IIS will then force a user authentication. There are some IIS settings you may need to change to allow browsers other than IE to log on successfully, notably you need to disable challenge-response authentication and enable plain-text authentication. This is done with the IIS service manager.
After authentication, IIS will then impersonate the logged-on user for subsequent permissions.
IIS is a frightened girly man when it comes to handling PHP authentication. I know what you are thinking: be a real man and run Apache. I wish I could. Unfortunately, the client runs IIS and I'm not fightin' city hall. Too short a deadline. Oh well, someone's got to pay the bills and tuition.
Thanks for your reply,
Very kind of you.