Re: [ciapug] htaccess

[Lathrop Preston <laith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I said there seems to be some confusion...

to be honest I was surprised when Barry showed me that the PHP_AUTH_USER 
would work... when I first needed the answer to your question (several 
years ago) it had to be REMOTE_USER if you wanted to use .htassess 
authentication...

Laith

Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:

> What is the differance?  I tried the $_SERVER[PHP_AUTH_USER] and it
> worked.
>
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 15:28, Lathrop Preston wrote:
>
> > You can use
> >
> > $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'];
> >
> > instead.
> >
> > there seems to be some confusion as to the functional difference between 
> > the two (if any)
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:54, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I've got a folder that is password protected by an .htaccess file. From
> > > > > my php script I need to find out what the username they typed in was.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is the username from the apache login stored an as envirnoment variable
> > > > > somewhere?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > :) Dave
> > > >
> > > > $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']
> > > >
> > > > -barry
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