Re: Perl-CGI - Emulating Apache authentication?

You could of course create a cgi based login system in a popup but I don't believe that is what you asking for.

As far as I am aware there is no way to emulate the apache auth functionality. It seems like a waste of effort to duplicate functionality when you can just use it as it is. If you want to manage the users and passwords from perl you can use Apache::Htpasswd to manipulate the .htpasswd file.

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Re^2: Perl-CGI - Emulating Apache authentication? by DreamT (Pilgrim) on Mar 08, 2013 at 10:22 UTC
I want to control the behaviour (enabling/disabling) of the authentication based on dynamic variables in the Perl code, that's why I really can't use it as it is. I guess I can use mod_perl in some way, but the environment for this specific task is very strict - I really can't install mod_perl in the target environment.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl-CGI - Emulating Apache authentication? by rnewsham (Curate) on Mar 08, 2013 at 10:45 UTC
I think you really just need to create a cookie based login session system. If you have reasons for not wanting to store users in a database then you can still use a .htpasswd file for storing users. I think App::Authentication::Htpasswd should allow you to do that.	[reply]