in reply to Authentication Suggestion in CGI

What's wrong with .htaccess? Sessions and authentication are two different problems. Apache server authentication is fine, no need to use perl for that unless you are writing Apache modules in perl.

If you mean you don't want to keep rewriting .htaccess for each signup, you need to look at group authenticatiom. Again, see the Apache manual.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: Authentication Suggestion in CGI
by knowmad (Monk) on Feb 05, 2005 at 13:41 UTC

    Two things come to mind:

    1. The client doesn't want to have a pop-up dialog box for user login
    2. You need to customize the authentication to use a database and are not running mod_perl (which eliminates many of the fine modules available on CPAN)

        3. William

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