Password Protect causes HTTP Error

[Zangoose]

I'm trying to protect the actual upload page so only certain people can upload images to the site but once it is protected, when users try and upload images then they just get an HTTP error. I've read some threads on this matter but there isn't really a solution. Is this still the case?

 

[Rodolfo]

When you set a user : password that appy for the curren "client". The uploader used on Chevereto is a flash uploader meaning that the request that the flash file does to the server it counts like another "client" and since this client doesn't have the credentials the system shouts an HTTP error. In firefox you get a window that ask the user : pass but in Chrome you don't get that, it doesn't give you the option to submit the user : pass.

Thing is that since the uploader is another client, there is no workaround for this at least without doing major tweaks in the current uploader (Chevereto will drop uploadify on 3.0).

The workarounds available are:

1. Don't use password for the upload.php file only
2. Pass the user : pass to a session file and pass this data to the upload.php

I will recommend you the first option... Check this: http://brett.batie.com/software-development/password-protect-all-but-one-file-htaccess/

 

[Zangoose]

Thanks a lot, just what I needed!