Passing arguments to .htaccess - please help...

[asultan]

So this is the scenario:

I have a section in my site where I ask users to enter a username and password combination.

I don't whant to implement sessions or anything like that because I really don't need them, and I also whant to avoid using a database if possible.

So what I'm trying to do is to send the users that enter their username and password to a password proteced area of my site. I'm using standard .htpassword and .htaccess files to protect this.

So here is my question: Is it possible for me to pass the username and password that they enter in my form to the server so it doesn't prompt for the username and password that the default .htaccess prompts?

I know that if this where possible this prompt would still be prompt if the username password combination was wrong, but at least it will look nicer if they enter the right information from the begining.

Any ideas of how I can do this or if it is possible?

thanks - I appreciate any help.

[AstroTeg]

I haven't tested this, but I think you can get away with this by doing:

[url]http://[/url][user name]:[password]@[full/normal url]

I think that would work.

[asultan]

Thanks I'll try that