realm is missing in HTTP authnetication

Shai Halevi · *nix forums beginner Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 1

I'm running the following script under PHP 4.4.2 in safe-mode:

<?php
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="some realm"');
header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
exit('The realm is supposed to be "some realm"');
?>

When accessing it, I get the following headers from the server:

RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:23:15 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.xx (Unix) PHP/4.4.2 mod_ssl/2.8.yy
OpenSSL/0.9.7zzzz
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.2
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="1125"
[...]

The "1125" is probably the script UID, but this should have been added
to "some realm", not replaced it. Can anyone shed any light on this? Is
this a bug in my PHP engine?

Some details from phpinfo() are attached below.

System => FreeBSD my.web.address.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD
5.2.1-RELEASE-p10 #1: Thu Sep 23 15:05:06 MDT 2004
cheeks@my.web.address.com:/some/path/here i386

Configure Command => './configure' '--enable-versioning'
'--enable-memory-limit' '--with-layout=GNU'
'--with-config-file-scan-dir=/path/to/somewhere' '--disable-all'
'--with-regex=php' '--with-apxs=/path/to/apxs' '--prefix=/some/prefix'
'i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1'

Server API => Apache
Virtual Directory Support => disabled
PHP API => 20020918
PHP Extension => 20020429
Zend Extension => 20050606
Debug Build => no
Zend Memory Manager => enabled

-- Shai

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