PHP Authentication

Not taking in input

[BlueScreen]

I'm trying to use the PHP authentication example in the PHP manual

<?php
 if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {
  header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Realm"');
  header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
  echo 'Text to send if user hits Cancel button';
  exit;
 } else {
  echo "<p>Hello {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']}.</p>";
  echo "<p>You entered {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']} as your password.</p>";
 }
?> 

It works on my machine, but when I try to run it on my host, it just repeatedly asks for a password over and over again, never taking in what is typed in. It seems that the variables are never getting set, but I'm not sure why. I've tried it on my other hosts and it works fine too - so what's going wrong?

Thanks a lot :)

[jatar_k]

if it works on your other hosts and your local machine then I would think it was something with that specific host.

[BlueScreen]

It is, but I'm not sure what to do about it, can I just not use PHP authentication on that host?

[coopster]

You're going to have to contact that particular host and work it out with them, BlueScreen.