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Asked: 2026-05-12T17:22:59+00:00

At http://localhost/tmp/ I have a form that asks for the user and password (authentication).

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At http://localhost/tmp/ I have a form that asks for the user and password (authentication).
After the user posts (hits OK) I want to redirect the user to http://localhost/test/ which uses Apache’s Basic AuthType. Happens that the user and password just typed in the form are exactly the credentials to authenticate at http://localhost/test/
What I want is the solution so that the user is not asked for the password in the second address. So far I was able to pass the ‘Authorization: Basic “base64_encoded user and password”‘ with CURL (using GET), and get the response I want (contents of test/index.html, for example). However, that’s curl getting the info instead of my browser redirecting there with preauthorization. That is, if I type http://localhost/test/ in the address bar it asks for the password again. Any ideas? Any clarification needed?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is that the authorization state is maintained in the browser, and there’s no real way to tell the browser it’s authorized.

    Most systems rely on a Cookie system, but BASIC/DIGEST HTTP AUTH are HTTP headers. So, only the browser can set those.

    I should say, for normal every day requests — you might (I’m not sure) be able to set the headers in an XHR.

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