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is "http://username:password@localhost.com/secure_area/" secure ?

Asked by shams_khan in PHP Scripting Language

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Hi,

I have a PHP login scripts that takes the "username" and "password" and stores it in a session.

Once verified as a valid user against a mySQL database, the user is redirected to a members area ( "/secure_area" ), using:

http://username:password@localhost.com/secure_area/

This is so that .htaccess (which is in the "/secure_area" folder won't pop up its own "login/password" box).

However, i am having a couple of problems,

first, once the user is redirected to the /secure_area folder, EVERY link on that page (and onwards) is prefixed with http://username:password@localhost.com...... for everyone to see !!! and thus the password has been exposed. How can I stop it displaying the username and password ?

And also, is this a secure way of logging in?

(it is the only way I can figure out how to do it, so that PHP logs u in and passes username and password to .htaccess quietly).

Many Thanks for any help!

Shams
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