I am putting together an osCommerce website. The store resides in a password protected folder since it is a wholesale site and the owners don't want easy access to their prices (although security is low, and they know it, they just want to make it a little hard for people to get the info). Parts of the site require SSL security since they are taking credit card info, etc. Now when someone is on the site whenever they go to https://www.site.com they need to reenter the password. Also www.site.com and site.com are not the same thing and can also trigger another password request (although I can probably fix that just by being careful). Do any of you have any ideas about how I can protect the store area in a way that only requires a one time use of the user name and password?
Why don't you use an oscommerce mod so the product prices are only visible to registered customers, customers you have allowed to view wholesale prices only.