php authentication question & cloacking

[scorpion]

First question, I have a url: abc.com/members that pops up an authentication window. I cannot use include to redirect using php. Can I pop-up a authentication window with PHP, get the data, then call the URL like this:

include 'http://username:[e-mail]/members' ??

Secondly, is this a simple example of cloaking? A javascript or php redirect to another site, and text in the body of your HTML for the search engine who can't read the javascript or php?

Thanks

[jatar_k]

>>>Can I pop-up an authentication window with PHP, get the data, then call the URL

Yes you can get the info. I don't really see the value of putting the password in the url. That is an extremely unsecure way of dealing with passwords.

and no I would not consider that cloaking. Air posted a great cloaking breakdown here.

Newbie Cloaking Primer [webmasterworld.com]