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Old 06-25-2003
Joshua Slive
 
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Default Re: using authentication for access to a directory....eg .htaccess

"David McCall" <david@atgi.net> wrote in message news:<bdad94$i4h$1@nnrp.atgi.net>...
> I'd like to configure some kind of time out after no activity so that the
> users is prompted again for
> username and password, say after 5 min.
>
> Is this doable with the standard configs or not???


With HTTP basic auth? No. The client is completely responsible
for managing the login and must send the password with every request.

Joshua.