Redirect strategies for coping with IE7

[Richard Gaskin]

I have some content which I want protected against most visitors to my 
site, but some I want to grant access.

htaccess would seem the logical route, but I also want to provide a 
zero-login option for those people I want to grant access.

For the non-Microsoft world I could provide a URL with the htaccess 
login and password embedded:

   http://user:pass@domain.com/content/

But IE7 doesn't allow URLs with embedded passwords. :(

I've tried a CGI that does its own authentication and then redirects, 
but even redirecting to a URL like the one above with an embedded 
password is not allowed with IE.

How can I protect that directory and also provide access to the folder 
for those I give a login and password to, without requiring them to 
manually log in each time?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World
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