Re: [users@httpd] Can you supply username & password for AuthType Basic within a POST/GET?

[Eric Covener <co...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Jeff Sherk Forerunner
Ministries<je...@forerunnertv.com> 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@example.com/foo), and will pass them to the
webserver without prompting you.

-- 
Eric Covener
covener@gmail.com

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