This sounds interesting.

But i'm not getting the environment variables REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_PASSWD returning anything. I login successfully with htaccess but neither return anything.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $request = CGI->new;
print $request->header;
print <<EOM;
CHECK/$ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}/$ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'}
EOM
exit;
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This is running on Win2k Apache2 BTW.

thanks update

$ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} will return but $ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'} will not