On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Jeff Sherk Forerunner Ministries<jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When requiring a username & password with AuthType Basic, is it possible to > include them in a POST or GET request to the server so that it won't ask for > them (because they were provided)? > > If it's possible, what variable names are assigned to them. No, basic authentication credentials have to come in over the prescribed HTTP header, not as part of a query string or POST body. A browser will allow you to encode them into the URL (http://user:pass@xxxxxxxxxxx/foo), and will pass them to the webserver without prompting you. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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