[PHPLIB] apache proxy: authentication possible with phplib? From: Brian S. Craigie (Brian.Craigie <email protected>)
Date: 01/07/00

Hi all,

I'm currently using Apache's basic authentication to control access to
one of our proxy servers. I'd like to implement some extra features and
to this end would like to change the authentication to use phplib. If
it is possible, I'd presumably have to store the url (and any POST
variables) the user was trying to access, take them to the
authentication page and once successfully authenticated, hand them on
the the url I saved.

Has anyone successfully done this already (to save me re-inventing the
wheel), or is it just not possible?

Presumably if it did work, programs which access the web via the proxy
in the absence of the user (such as Norton Antivirus LiveUpdate) would
not work, and therefore I'd have to provide the usual authentication for
those, and only go to the phplib auth page for browsers by inspecting
the HTTP_USER_AGENT info.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks in advance,

Brian

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