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how easy it would be to detect who is visiting the page

Setting up simple login will give you the REMOTE_USER ENV upon login. Getting them in your perl code is as simple as checking the $ENV{REMOTE_USER} upon successful login. Setting up your web server to prompt for, say, Basic Authentification is going to be something you'll want to look up, since it's very server-dependent.

a good reason to use Perl rather than a simple Wiki page, would be that the program would generate timestamps rather than having the user have to enter the date on which the data access was last checked.

Any decent Wiki backend can be setup to add a timestamp for every entry on a page; many allow you to do Version Control, as well, which would auto-timestamp each change.

So far as your overall idea, it looks good.

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.

In reply to Re: A web-based checklist in the manner of the checklists in the bathrooms of fast-food restaurants by Asim
in thread A web-based checklist in the manner of the checklists in the bathrooms of fast-food restaurants by OfficeLinebacker

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