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carlhoell
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password and username acceptance

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hi everone,

How can Htaccess on a linux apache server accept username and passwords form
other web-applications allowing the web-applications to pass the username a
nd password over to the apache server without tghe user typing in the userna
me and password.....?

please help, reallly urgent.
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feyd
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carlhoell
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password and username acceptance

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feyd wrote:The URL used can supply it: http://username:password@host/path/file?query#hash
Hi, Will this work with the apache server sending a 401 authentication header?
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try it. :)
carlhoell
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Hi,
This does not work. It does not find the host when the username : password is added at the front of the URL.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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