getting who logged on with using basic auth

dswimboy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (cgi programming)

I am using Apache's htaccess to password protect directories. is there a way for my perl script to find out the username of who is logged on?

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Re: getting who logged on with using basic auth⭐ by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 15, 2002 at 22:22 UTC
It's in `$ENV{REMOTE_USER}`.	[reply]