Authenticate Apache directory over PHP?

[Xeon06]

Good day everyone,

I am shamelessly reposting this from my SO question by chance that someone on FP would know.

I have a directory set up with some Apache Auth stuff. Here is the directory:

[url]http://gojalapeno.com/intranet/content/ado-jeune[/url]
Use ado-jeune:tezesyrab to login.

Here is the code for the .htaccess that powers it:

AuthName "Connexion au dossier:"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile "D:\Dropbox\htaccess\secret\.htpasswd"
Require valid-user

Now the login form for that directory is generated by the browser, but I wish to use my own HTML form for this. How can I do it? I've tried using cURL with PHP:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://gojalapeno.com/intranet/content/ado-jeune');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'ado-jeune:tezesyrab');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

That authenticates fine, but the problem with that is that it doesn't redirect to the page (despite the CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION), it merely "includes" it in the current file. As such, all my relative links are broken.

So what I'm looking for is a way to use my own HTML form to authenticate to an Apache Basic Auth directory, and to redirect to that directory after.

Thanks!

[reeferdk]

CURL cannot be used for authenticating clients..

Take a look at this:
[url]http://php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php[/url]