I would love to be able to check to see if a cookie exists and if it doesn't, send users to a page with a registration link and an "I forgot my password" link (because if it's not saved they won't remember it

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If the cookie does exist I need to pull out the username/password so htaccess can determine what group a user is in.
My problem seems to be not so much reading ubb cookies as passing that info to htaccess.