Htaccess.

[Teach]

Hello,

We currently use HTACCESS to secure a staff portal.
I've heard from various places that it's possible to use a standard form to login to a ht access area, instead of the standard "popup" login by the browser.

Is this possible, and if so how please?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

[Stephen Philbin]

A few basic ways are posted here: http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?t=20525&page=1

[ray326]

If you're using Basic Authentication then there's no way around going through the browser's authentication dialog. There are other authentication mechanisms that use an HTML form as a front end but they may or may not be as secure as the former.

[davidbrent]

i have used and modified a javascript to do this. hoever its not brilliant and evevn the password is wrong, the password request box pops up anyway!