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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:22:42 +0200
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Thread-Topic: [users@httpd] HTML Form instead of browser prompt for
 authentication?
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From: "Boyle Owen" <Owen.Boyle@swx.com>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: RE: [users@httpd] HTML Form instead of browser prompt for
 authentication?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Neu [mailto:peter.neu@gmx.net]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: AW: [users@httpd] HTML Form instead of browser=20
> prompt for authentication?
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> Hello Owen,
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> the apache is only a proxy meant for authentication. I simply=20
> forward all
> requests to a tomcat server. Natural answer would be why=20
> don't configure
> authentication there? That's because somebody needed ip based=20
> authentication
> (x)or password authentication. This is nuts, I know but It's=20
> the scenario.
> So I just need the authentication - programming something in PHP
> or CGI makes everything more complicated.

Then stick with Basic Auth. The only problem is an esthetic one...

Re-read my previous post - you have only two possibilities; basic auth
(hence ugly browser prompts) or server-sided session handling (hence
programming).

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.=20

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> Cheers,
> Pete=20
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