[NBLUG/talk] .htaccess - how does it work?

[Bill Kendrick]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 06:33:20PM -0700, Doug Palmer wrote:
>  
> Question: Does the auth/reply use a different port than the normal http
> 80? Or should I look somewhere else?

If there's no username/password attached to the HTTP request, Apache
will respond with a 300-and-something (I think) error with a request
to authenticate.

Browsers typically ignore the HTML that comes back, and instead pop-up
a login window.  When you submit it, it tries again, this time sending the
username and password.

Any OTHER requests WITHIN that space (e.g., other files in the dir; subdirs)
should all get the successful username/password sent along with it.


It's kind of like:


  Hey, give me that page.

    Who the hell are YOU?

  Ah, sorry.  Hey, give me that page.  I'm Bill!

    Here's the page.

  Hey, give me this other page.  I'm Bill!      [ so you don't have to login
                                                  for every embedded image,
                                                  every link, etc. :^) ]
    Here's the page.




...and so on...


-bill!

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