HTTP authentication and PHP authentication
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3074409/http-authentication-using-php-authentication">HTTP authentication using PHP authentication</a>  </p>
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<p>Hi.
I'm making a members area for my site and I have it already running. I authenticate members using mysql and php and this works really well.</p>

<p>But now problems occurs, I would like to offer members a possibility to upload files to the systems, and those files should be available ONLY to logged in members.</p>

<p>I know I could store those files to a database or even in a filesystem and serve them throught php, BUT this will get very heavy for the server when members upload bigger files. Those files might be even 20MB or even bigger. </p>
