how to pass user and password to an .htaccess page using php

[graziano68]

Hi all,

I have a webform to permit some user to login on neomail (Webmail software) ; on the webform they enter user ($user) and a password ($password) ; after that a simple php script was passing the $user and $password results in this way

<?
header("Location: http://$user:[email protected]/neomail.php");
?>

OK , it was working fine for years . It's stopped to work latest week after latest IE security patch !

With latest IE patch , http://user[email protected] is NO more allowed .

So , now, I am searching an alternative way to login my users
to http://$user:[email protected]/neomail.php

I don't know if exists a php solution . I searched for hours on php documentation (header and authentication) , found nothing.
Any idea ?

Thank you.

[Spookster]

Well unless you plan on putting everything inside a single directory and .htaccess password protect that directory then you really should consider creating a login system using PHP/MySQL. It's not that hard.