Hello, Iam trying to password protect a script show.pl to be exact but not all of it just specific function in it.

if( param('Αποστολή') )
{
   if ( ($name eq 'delete') or ($name eq 'deletelog') or ($name eq 'dr
+op')) {
      if ($ENV{REMOTE_USER} eq 'Nik') {
         if ($name eq 'delete') {
            $dbh->do( "DELETE FROM guestbook WHERE name=$pray" );
            push @print_later, span( {class=>'lime'},    "Μόλις διαγρά
+ψατε τον χρήστη => " );
            exit 0;
         }
         elsif ($name eq 'deletelog') {
            $dbh->do( 'DELETE FROM guestlog' );
            push @print_later, span( {class=>'tip'},  "Η βάση δεδομένω
+ν με τα logs μόλις διαγράφηκε!" );
            push @print_later, span( {class=>'yellow'},  $pray );
            exit 0;
         }
         elsif ($name eq 'drop') {
            $dbh->do( 'DELETE FROM guestbook' );
            push @print_later, span( {class=>'tip'},  "Όλες οι εγγραφέ
+ς διαγράφηκαν από τη βάση δεδομένων!" );
            exit 0;
         }
      }
      else {
         print header(-status=>'401 Unauthorized', 'WWW-Authenticate'=
+>'Basic realm="Only Nik can do perform that!"');
      }
   }

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They told me to create a location configuration directive on httpd.conf which i did but remove the Require user Nik which i did and in fact when at the form a user gives soemthing as delete a drop the http auth box pops in but i cannot be vbalidatind as user. Any ideas?

Also i had a problem with a header which should have been print befoe any other print statement and so i had to to push every print in an array and print at the end of the script after the header. But i dont like the idea of pushing things to an array very much isnt any other way to pop a http auth box when a requested feature/function of my cgi-script needs to be run fopr example if the user enters a "delete" or "drop" value at my @name variable?

I hope i agve you to understand what iam about to do.

In reply to Password Protecting specific functions of a Perl Cgi Script by Nik

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