HTTP Authentication

[treeleaf20]

If I have a password protected directory is there a way to pass the username and password to that directory so when I try and access a page from the protected directory it won't prompt me for a username and password?

Thanks.

[drew010]

http://username:[e-mail]/folder/

[treeleaf20]

Could I send this in a hidden field? How would I make sure that the directory got this message at the beginning before it tries to display any content?

Thanks.

[drew010]

are you trying to include a file from a protected directory via a php script? or are you meaning to forward a user to this from a form?

[treeleaf20]

I am trying to display a file from the password protected directory. A user says vie account information and the php grab the filename from the database and then I want it to display the actual file that is sitting on the webserver. The files are html from excel so I would need to send the username and password to the directory to be able to view the file without getting prompted.

Thanks

[drew010]

if php is going to grab the file contents, the password protection wont take effect. that only has to do with viewing the folder contents from the url, which uses the webserver. if you are accessing the file via an include, there is no need to worry about the protection.

[treeleaf20]

Well PHP will grab the filename from the database and then I do $resultset = mysql_fetch_array($result)

With that I do www.website.com/files/$resultset['filename'];

That would prompt the user to authenticate so I'm not sure how to pass the page the username and password not to prompt the user then.

[drew010]

in that case you can use file_get_contents and you can pass the filename the same way i showed in the post above with the username:password.

[treeleaf20]

Would it be possible to provide me with an example. Would I send that in the hidden field? I can get the file contents just not sure how to pass the username and password like you had originally showed.

Thanks

[drew010]

$data = file_get_contents("http://$username:$[e-mail]/files/{$resultset['filename']}");