Instead of the gray screen popping up asking for username and password while trying to access htaccess protected directory, is it possible to have a custom html page popping up. I do have a login script for a html page, but if one submits wrong username or password the gray screen again pops up. How to completely get rid of the gray pop up screen.
No reply yet. Can anyone just tell whether it is possible or not.
Not really any way reliably to do it. Though you could use a server-side script to process a login form of their user/pass that then adds the user/pass into a URL redirect to the proper location (http://user:[email protected]). Though this is extremely insecure, leaves the user/pass mix in the history/cache for misuse and various other bad things...it basically negates authentication (though using a hidden function to simulate a login form does negate some of the bad vibes all around, but not enough to be called 'secure').
In theory you could also hadd the authentication into headers with a similar method, but I've never tried it so I'm not saying 100% one way or the other :)