I have no problem what so ever with your desire. In fact,
I encourage you to do this.
"So, how?"
I thought you'd never ask. :)
First, learn HTML forms. You will need a page that contains
two text boxes and a submit button. The action will point
to a Perl script that will check for the presence of values
in the two text boxes. If the values are good, and match
with some user in a flat file, DB file, or a database, then
you can redirect them to the s.pl file thingy.
You mention sessions - there are generaly 3 ways to
keep state in a web application:
- hidden fields
- passing values in the query string
- Apache::Session
The first two are okay, but the third, while carrying a
steep learning curve is da bomb.
Good luck, and please feel free to post code :)
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