mod_rewrite and authentication

[Chris Tankersley <chris.tankersley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've got a section of the website that I want only .htaccess 
authenticated users to be able to access, but I also want to push them 
to https://domain.name if they accidentally type in http://domain.name. 
If I throw both rules into my .htaccess I'm prompted to authenticate, 
then mod_rewrite fires, and then I have to authenticate again.

Is there a way I can tell apache to do the mod_rewrite first, then 
authenticate?

Apache 1.3.29 on OpenBSD 4.1

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