Header location to a authenticated site

[neil6179]

Hi,

I have a website that’s main index page requires HTTP basic authentication which is currently done through apache. (This I cannot change)

What I am trying to do is create a PHP page that will relocate to this page using the code below and that will automatically log me on using the username and password already in the script.

<?php
$user = “bob”;
$passwd = “3he4kwf”;

header( “Location: https://here.there.com”);
?>

This redirects me to https://here.there.com however I am then prompted for my username and password.

One possible solution I have tried was:

<?php
$user = “bob”;
$passwd = “3he4kwf”;

header( “Location: https://$user:$[e-mail]”);
?>

However this still prompts for a login, thus doesn’t work.

Another tried solution is:

<?php
$user = “bob”;
$passwd = “3he4kwf”;

header( “Location: https://here.there.com”);
header(“Authorization: Basic “.base64_encode(“$user:$passwd”))

?>

This also does not work! 🙁

Does anyone have another solution that might work me?
Any extra information will be most welcome!

Neil

[MAsterTom]

I think something like this should do the trick...

$user = "bob";
$passwd = "3he4kwf";

$location = "https://here.there.com?user=" . $user . "&passwd=" . $passwd;

header(Location: $location);

or else... do this...

echo "<a href='https://here.there.com?user=" . $user . "&passwd=" . $passwd . "'>link text</a>

the final suggestion SHOULD most certainly work...