Can Googlebot deep-crawl htaccess protected directories?

I want my protected area to be crawled

[soccer_star]

Hi,

I use htaccess to protect a directory of my site I only want accessible to members (who enter via a log-in page).

When deep-crawler hits my log-in page it stops, but
my protected area contains keyword-rich and updated content I'd quite like Googlebot to index.

So is there a way of letting the deep-crawler index my protected pages without letting non-members in at the same time?

[BigDave]

Yes there is.

But as a surfer I would find it to be incredibly annoying that I would get a login page when I tried to go to those pages. I would suspect that Google would frown on this also.

Why would you want protected pages to come up in the search results? Would you allow these pages to be cached?

[jomaxx]

I totally agree that password-protected pages are a PITA to deal with and should not be in Google. I would personally call it a form of cloaking, but it's possible that Google has an explicit policy covering this situation in one FAQ or another.