Hi; My company is using Apache 1.39 on red hat. They have a .htaccess file set up so that if anyone wants to see a set of files in a directory, that user must log in. I would like to make an exception to this rule if the user is already logged into a JSP application we have. If the user is logged into this application, that application can navigate to that directory, with no login/password prompt coming up. I thought I would make a special account for this JSP application in the infouser and .htaccess files. Then, I would have the JSP application create a cookie to automatically log itself into to that directory. The only thing I don't know at this point is what to write in the cookie. I have poked around in the docs and haven't found what I needed. If anyone knows how to do this, or if they can point me to some docs that will give the information I would be much obliged. Thanks much in advance Steve Steve http://www.geocities.com/beforewisdom/ "The internet may be a good substitute for television, but is it a good substitute for what television replaced?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx