Login not working for one user

what can be wrong?

[denisl]

I have a staff area protected by htaccess on a site. One member of staff who works from hoe through a dial up is not presented with the log in box. she is taken strainght the the Authorization Required page as if the login box had been cancelled.

How can this happen?

[stickledene]

Cor, we might need a little more info than what you're giving us, but I can hazard a few guesses:

her IP block is in the htaccess ban list
she has a bad cookie set

Those two spring to mind straight away. We'll need some more info tho ... what language is the auth script written in would be a good start.

Sorry!

Sticky

[denisl]

OOps - showing total lack of knowledge here.

The HTaccess is Auth type Basic and passwords are (one only in this case) managed by a php script.

I assumed all this to be server side and not affected by the client.

To get to this point in the site, the visitor has already logged in using a simple php auth script that sets a cookie. This is working otherwise the staff member would not even see the link to the page protected by HTaccess