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    copied!<p>I can't get Safari to submit forms to a page that is protected by .htaccess.<br> I have reduced my test page to:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;?php if(isset($_REQUEST["name"])) echo "&lt;p&gt;You entered: ", $_REQUEST["name"], "&lt;/p&gt;"; ?&gt; &lt;form method='post' action='index.php'&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;input type='text' NAME='name'&gt; &lt;input type='submit' name='send' value='Send'&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>If I remove the .htaccess file the above page runs without any problem.<br> With this .htaccess file Safari will never finish loading the page:</p> <pre><code>AuthUserFile /xxxx/xxxx/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /xxxx/xxxx/.htgroup AuthName Members AuthType Basic &lt;Limit GET POST&gt; require group XXXXX &lt;/Limit&gt; ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.php </code></pre> <p>Is there a workaround for this problem?</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>I can remove the POST limitation in the .htaccess file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Limit GET&gt; require group XXXXX &lt;/Limit&gt; </code></pre> <p>This will work for the above test case, but I won't be logged in anymore which means that:</p> <ol> <li>I don't have access to <code>$_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"]</code></li> <li>I have a security hole</li> </ol> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p><strong>Update 2</strong></p> <p>I have added a missing line in the .htaccess file above (<code>ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.php</code>) and made a personal reminder to always include everything in the samples (I'm supposed to know this). Helped by the comments from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/719/marie-fischer">Marie Fischer</a> it turns out that:</p> <p>Safari will not be able to submit a form to a page that is protected by <code>.htaccess</code> (which limits POST) if the <code>.htaccess</code> file includes an ErrorDocument like:</p> <pre><code>ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.php </code></pre>
 

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