I have a website hosted on an ISP who uses Apache server.
In my website there are a number of protected directories which can
only be accessed after a login. It is managed through .htpasswd and
..htaccess files on the server.

Now I would like for my program to be able to connect to one of these
protected directories when the user clicks a certain menu item and
without showing any login dialogue. The user will not know the
account/password combination, this is known only by my program.

So the question I put is this:
Is there any way an URL can be formulated such that it silently logs
in to a protected web page without the login dialogue being shown?

Any ideas, tips etc? Btw I program my application using Delphi 7.

/Bo


Bo Berglund
bo.berglund@telia.com