Ohhh great ones, I am trying to learn a little cgi, and have found Ovid's lessons: http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/lesson_four/lesson_four_1.html

I am most curious about this: 

#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe -wT
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

print header,
      start_html( "-title" => "Login in Weird Sports"),
      div( { -align => "center",
             -style => "color:#000000; font-family: Tahoma, helvetica,
+ arial;"},
        h1( "Login to your account" ),
        p( "Here you can log in to the Weird Sports mailing list archi
+ves. " .
           "In theory, you will be able to change your user settings. 
+In reality, " .
           "however, you can't because this is just an example from a 
+" .
           a( { -href => "http://www.easystreet.com/~ovid/cgi_course/"
+ },
                "stupid CGI programming course" ), "." ),
        start_form( { -action  => "login.cgi",
                      -enctype => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
                      -method  => "post" } ),
        table( { -bgcolor     => "#000000",
                 -border      => "0",
                 -cellpadding => "2",
                 -cellspacing => "1",
                 -style       => "font: 10pt;" },
          Tr( { -style => "background-color:#CCCCCC" },
            td( strong( "User Name:" ) ),
            td( input( { -maxlength => "30",
                         -name      => "username",
                         -size      => "30",
                         -type      => "text"} )
            ) # end td
          ), # end Tr
          Tr( { -style => "background-color:#CCCCCC"},
            td( strong( "Password:" ) ),
            td( input( { -maxlength => "30",
                         -name      => "password",
                         -size      => "30",
                         -type      => "password"} )
            ) # end td
          ), # end Tr
          Tr(
            td( { -colspan => "2",
                  -style   => "background-color:#CCCCCC" },
                input ( { -name => "remember",
                          -type => "checkbox"} ),
                " Remember my ID on this computer. ",
            ) # end td
          ), # end Tr
        ), # End table
        p( input( { -type  => "submit",
                    -value => "Login"} ),
           " ",
           input( { -type  => "reset"} ),
        ), # end p
        end_form,
      ), # End div
      end_html;

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When a user clicks on "login", how would one authenticate this? Does this information pass to another cgi? (and if so, how). Does Ovid contend 'this' script is named login.cgi? I understand that it was beyond the scope of his lesson, but I just want to learn ... and I hear you can help ;-)

thanks, me

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