Server Authentication

[Anon]

My webserver authenticates before giving access to any web page. The scenario is :
suppose you give an URL of my server page in your browser. The browser will automatically pop up a authentication dialog window where you need to insert the userid and password. Now my problem is one of my PHP page calls another PHP page on my server and the latter needs authentication as mentioned above and therefore the former PHP fails to execute.

So in this situation, is there any way by which my PHP page can pass the UserId and Password programatically to the called page for authentication. Again if the called page is an HTM page in place of PHP will the solution be different.

Thanks & regards
Soma

[brandonschnell]

anytime you're using HTTP authentication you can call a password protected page like so:

http://userid:[e-mail]/web/page

but if the user is being referred to the other page then they can see the username/password in the URL.