remote_user and remote_password for custom http authentication?

[Roxis]

On Sunday 14 October 2007, Jed Schmidt wrote:
> curl http://user:pass@72.44.41.145/beta/authcheck.html
>
> I get
>
> http_authorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNz
>
> But when I use Firefox or Safari to get _the_same_URL_, I get
>
> http_authorization:
>
> I am totally at a loss. Would someone mind giving this URL a try and
> tell me what I'm doing wrong?

you url does not require an authorization, that why some browsers don't auth