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Title :	HTTP Basic Authentication via POP3.
Categories :	Authentication, HTTP, Email, PHP	Joe H
Date :	Oct 06th 1998
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<?
/*

HTTP Basic Authentication using POP3

POP servers should be RFC 1939 Compliant and return
'+OK <whatever>' on success and '-ERR <whatever>' on failure.

YMMV of course.

I don't support this, don't ask me questions, yadda yadda
All this script does is authenticate - what you do from there
is up to you. I just really didn't want system password files
used for web authentication - which is a "Really Bad Idea".

Public Domain Source code - use as you see fit.

05-Oct-1998
joe@blarg.net

*/

$REALM = "My Realm";
$POPSERVER = 'pop3.yourdomain.com'; // Change this, please.

$LOGERRORS = 1; // Comment this line out to NOT log
// Authentication errors.
// Logs to STDERR - could use syslog
// with minor tweaking.

if(!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER)) {
Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"$REALM\"");
Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
echo "<H1>Authorization Required</H1>\n";
exit;
} else {
$fp = fsockopen("$POPSERVER", 110, &$errno, &$errstr);
if(!$fp) {
if (isset($LOGERRORS)) {
error_log("AUTH ERROR ($PHP_AUTH_USER/$PHP_AUTH_PW) Connection Failure",0);
error_log("POP3 ERROR [$errno] [$errstr]",0);
}
Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"$REALM\"");
Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Auth Required");
echo "<H1>Authorization Required</H1>\n";
exit;
} else {

set_socket_blocking($fp,-1); // Turn off blocking

/*
Clear the POP server's Banner Text.
eg.. '+OK Welcome to <server name> etc etc'
*/

$trash = fgets($fp,128); // Trash to hold the banner

fwrite($fp,"USER $PHP_AUTH_USER\r\n"); // POP3 USER CMD

$user = fgets($fp,128);
$user = ereg_replace("\n","",$user);

if ( ereg ("^\+OK(.+)", $user ) ) {

fwrite($fp,"PASS $PHP_AUTH_PW\r\n"); // POP3 PASS CMD
$pass = fgets($fp,128);
$pass = ereg_replace("\n","",$pass);

if ( ereg ("^\+OK(.+)", $pass ) ) {

// User has successfully authenticated

echo "<BR>Authenticated: $pass<BR>\n";

if (isset($LOGERRORS)) {
error_log("AUTH OK: $PHP_AUTH_USER",0);
}

} else {
if (isset($LOGERRORS)) {
error_log("AUTH ERROR ($PHP_AUTH_USER/$PHP_AUTH_PW)",0);
error_log("POP3 ERROR $pass",0);
}
Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"$REALM\"");
Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Auth Required");
echo "<H1>Authorization Required</H1>\n";
exit;
}

} else {
if (isset($LOGERRORS)) {
error_log("AUTH ERROR ($PHP_AUTH_USER/$PHP_AUTH_PW)",0);
error_log("POP3 ERROR [$user]",0);
}
Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"$REALM\"");
Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Auth Required");
echo "<H1>Authorization Required</H1>\n";
exit;
}

fwrite($fp,"QUIT\r\n");
fclose($fp);

}

}

?>

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