I'm trying to find a way to give a user access to an Apache htaccess protected directory without giving them an idea of what the password to that directory is. I found some code to get a page from such a directory in the lwpcook documentation.

sub pass_isValid{
  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST =>'http://mysite.com/secure/test.h
+tml');
  $req->authorization_basic('htusername', 'htpassword');
  print $ua->request($req)->as_string;
}

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But thats not really what I want. I'd like to do the authentication from a script, redirect the user, or provide a link to a file in that folder, and allow them to freely navigate to other files in that protected folder, without them ever seeing or the apache login screen

In reply to loggin into an Apache htprotected folder via CGI script. by thunders

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