in reply to external authentication

I'd roll your own if I were you. Also, please warn me in advance which sites you are doing this to so I can avoid them. No offense intended but what you are asking to do is evil on so many axes that I can't even calculate the dimensionality of the evil, let alone the volume...

Honestly, I'd rather you store the password than send it back out of your network...

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Re: Re: external authentication
by dshahin (Pilgrim) on Dec 29, 2000 at 23:25 UTC
    ah, this made me smile :)

    I'm just experimenting, and I know how to roll my own, but I just thought it would be neat to be able to utilize existing user bases so somebody could use a previously existing account and password.

    Little did I realize the indignation I would incur ;)

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      Indignation, Indigestion... Same thing I suppose. =) At least you knew I was joke-y in tone. Honestly, though, every system is fairly different but you should be able to snag the Auth stuff from LWP (HTTP::Request) if you want to auth remotely against a website.

      Gah, you tricked me into answering... ahhhh!

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