[pmwiki-users] PmWikiEdit . . .

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 03:46:48PM +0100, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:15:45AM +0100, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> > > One solution for pages protected with .htpasswd is to submit URIs such as 
> > > this one:
> > > 
> > > 	http://user:password@pmwiki.org/wiki/Some/Page
> > > 
> > > However, this doesn't work with other authentification schemes unless 
> > > pmwiki is modified to extract username/password from the URI if it's 
> > > there. IIRC, Patrick will consider do this if we ask him. 
> > 
> > No, I said I would do this if someone could figure out a way to
> > extract the "user:password" portion from the uri.  In all of the
> > versions of Apache that I have ever used, the "user:password"
> > portion of the url isn't made available to the PHP script unless the
> > site is being protected by .htpasswd.
> 
> Ah... Would it then instead be an option to allow pmwiki to extract 
> password/username from something like:
> 
> 	...?user=xxx&password=xxx

Use authid= and authpw=, and then in local/config.php use:

    if (isset($_GET['authid'])) $_POST['authid'] = $_GET['authid'];
    if (isset($_GET['authpw'])) $_POST['authpw'] = $_GET['authpw'];

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