Question

How can I use HTTP basic Authentication and have the user submit their Username and Password in a HTML form and have it Authenticate using HTTP Basic Authentication.

I heard that Internet Explorer no longer supports the use of http://user:[e-mail] no more so I don’t know the best way to approach this.

Use of PHP and javascript and HTML is OK. I don’t want to use PERL and I perfer no big javascript libs.

If you don’t think HTTP Basic Auth. is the best way, please recommend something easy and simple to do. It will only be a login site for 5-6 people. No need to complicate it.

Answer 1

jQuery library has ajax function which has “password” and “user” parameter for Authentication. When user click login you can get value of login and password and passed to $.ajax function.

$('#submit').click(function() {
   $.ajax({
      url: 'authenticated.php',
      username: $('#login').val(),
      password: $('#passwd').val(),
      success: function(data) {
         //do something with data from the server
      }
   });
   return false;
});