I was happy as a small kid few months ago when I applied trick with htaccess and it worked. But now I am on the same boat as the others, solution is not working anymore.
Main question is why WP opened this forum when nobody cares about it? I am not demandig user but the basic function as protected page has to be reliable and when is any error with it, it must be solved quickly, in weeks. This is one year old.
I am not sure but it seems WP was bad choice.