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:

  1. hidden fields
  2. passing values in the query string
  3. 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 :)

jeffa

In reply to (jeffa) Re: session in perl by jeffa
in thread session in perl by Anonymous Monk

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