[newbie]apache authentication questions

[Steve Holden]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>>grahamd at dscpl.com.au wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It is not impossible though and in cases where you don't have a choice
>>>but to use a HTTP authentication scheme, use of AJAX may be the
>>>answer to still allowing use of a form based login scheme. See:
>>>
>>>  http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html
>>>
>>
>>That's neat!
> 
> 
> IMHO this makes things more complicated and error-prone. And it requires
> Javascript. I also can't see why this is more secure than a proper
> session management (using cookies or URL for passing the session ticket
> around).
> 
I don't believe I said it *was* any of those things. But I am constantly 
amazed at the lengths the world will go to just to prove me wrong!

regards
  Steve
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