I have a local intranet that will not require an extensive logon, but if you are accessing it via the internet, it will require a more though logon proceder as per my bosses request.

This isn't really answering your question, but I can't help wondering if Perl is the right place to be solving this problem. When you talk of an intranet, I assume you are talking about a web server. If you are talking about a web server, chances are good you're talking about Apache.

In this case, you just want to set your server up so that it's unauthenticated for local addresses, but authenticated for everyone else. Other web servers offer similar functionality

<Location /foo>
  Order deny,allow
  Satisfy any
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName $realm
  AuthGroupFile /usr/local/www/auth/groups
  AuthUserFile  /usr/local/www/auth/users

  Allow from 192.168.0.0/24
  Require valid-user
  # or whatever, e.g. require group foo
  Deny from all
</Location>

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Apache plug-ins exist to let you authenticate against an LDAP server, or a database or other such repositories.

In other words, let Apache worry about authentication, because it's good at doing that; this will simplify your Perl code.

- another intruder with the mooring of the heat of the Perl

In reply to Re: Discriminating between local and remote IP's (Apache ACLs) by grinder
in thread Discriminating between local and remote IP's by Avitar

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