Problem with PHP/.htaccess script, when using Internet Explorer

digioz · #1 (**permalink**) 12-27-03, 08:37 PM

Hi guys,

I am having a problem with this script, only when using Internet Explorer. The idea is for users of a .htaccess protected folder to be able to login using the form, without the Apache pop-up screen showing up and asking them to enter their username and password. Again, it works fine using Netscape, and other browsers, just not using IE (damn Micro$oft

)

Code:

 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 3.2//en">
 
 <html>
 
 <head>
 <title>Login Page</title>
 </head>
 
 <body bgcolor="#808080" text="#000000" link="#8080ff" vlink="#0000ff" alink="#ffff00">
 
 <form method = post action = "login.php">
 	  <b> Username </b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type = text name = name><br>
 	  <b> Password </b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type = password name = password><br>
 	  <br>
 	<input type=submit name=Login value=Login>
 </form>
 </body>
 
 </html>

Here is the Login.php file:

PHP Code:


			
 <?php
 $name = $_POST['name'];
 $password = $_POST['password'];
 $link = "www.yoursite.com/restrictedfolder/";
 
 $URL="http://$name:$password@$link";
 header ("Location: $URL");
 ?>
 
 <html>
 <title>Login Redirect Page</title>
 <head></head>
 <body>
 
 </body>
 </html>

digioz · #2 (**permalink**) 12-29-03, 09:53 AM

Does anyone have any clue why this script is not compatible with Internet Explorer? Any help would be appreciated.

Infinite_Hackers · #3 (**permalink**) 12-29-03, 09:57 AM

in quotes
<html>

<head>
<title>Login Page</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#808080" text="#000000" link="#8080ff" vlink="#0000ff" alink="#ffff00">

<form method="post" action="login.php">
<b> Username </b>  <input type="text" name= "name"><br>
<b> Password </b>   <input type= "password" name"="password"><br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Login" value="Login">
</form>
</body>

</html>

digioz · #4 (**permalink**) 12-29-03, 10:37 AM

I already tried that. It doesn't fix the problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Infinite_Hackers

in quotes
<html>

<head>
<title>Login Page</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#808080" text="#000000" link="#8080ff" vlink="#0000ff" alink="#ffff00">

<form method="post" action="login.php">
<b> Username </b>  <input type="text" name= "name"><br>
<b> Password </b>   <input type= "password" name"="password"><br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Login" value="Login">
</form>
</body>

</html>

codefighter · #5 (**permalink**) 01-22-04, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by digioz

I already tried that. It doesn't fix the problem.

Hi Digioz

I've got just the same problem.
Here my workaround:
The html-page with the form invokes a php-page that echos a html-page with following <body>-tag <body onload='href=\"http://$username:$password@www.domain.com/restricted_path/file.html\"'>
The body of the page has no content.

So the trick is loading a blank page which redirects to the originally targeted page in the .htaccess-restricted directory. Not very elegant but it works with M$hit IE too.

Hope you got it.

Best regards

codefighter

digioz · #6 (**permalink**) 01-23-04, 06:46 AM

Thank you so much my friend.

I guess I wasn't thinking about browser redirect at all. I had some trouble getting your version to work on my server, so here is what I did instead:

Code:

<?php
 
$username = $_POST['username'];
 
$password = $_POST['password'];
 
 
 
echo "<html>";
 
echo "<title>Welcome to the Restricted Area</title><head>";
 
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=\"0; URL=http://$username:$password@www.mydomain.com/restricted/index.html\">";
 
echo "</head><body bgcolor=\"#C0C0C0\">";
 
echo "<center><h2>Please Wait .... Login Into the Restricted Area ... </h2>";
 
echo "</body></html>"; 
 
?>

There is a 1 second delay until the user is redirected into the restricted area, but at least it works with browser redirect.

Again, thank you so much for the help.

Quote:

Originally Posted by codefighter

Hi Digioz

I've got just the same problem.
Here my workaround:
The html-page with the form invokes a php-page that echos a html-page with following <body>-tag <body onload='href=\"http://$username:$password@www.domain.com/restricted_path/file.html\"'>
The body of the page has no content.

So the trick is loading a blank page which redirects to the originally targeted page in the .htaccess-restricted directory. Not very elegant but it works with M$hit IE too.

Hope you got it.

Best regards

codefighter

Amel · #7 (**permalink**) 05-31-06, 03:34 PM

Hi,

I'm looking for this since so long.. i'm really happy to find a solution but I'm not really familiar with coding and I didn't understand where I have to put the latest code..

Any help would be appreciated! thank's in advance.

analoguedependent · #8 (**permalink**) 07-26-07, 11:17 PM

wow! ive been looking for this ie workaround for the "invalid syntax error" forever! thanks for that!

one question tho, i need the page to redirect to specific $username.shtml. is that even possible with this workaround?