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Re^3: Passing values to htdigest from command line problem
by chargrill (Parson) on Oct 11, 2006 at 07:05 UTC

    Sorry, I was mistaken on a few things.

    • You read the documentation.
    • You tried the command line from a DOS window and it worked -- and then it didn't work when run from perl.
    • This is a perl question, and not an apache utility program* question.

    So, I read the documentation. Khen1950fx is right (looks like he read the documentation too), there is no -b (batch mode in htpasswd (to which you're above referring to as "BasicAuth"), letting you specify a password on the command line) command line option in htdigest.

    So, the problem is that your command won't run from the command line, because the apache utility** doesn't support it. Running it from perl can't change that fact.




    * ... and their documentation.

    ** Apache (and its related utilities) are open source***, maybe you can implement the -b functionality yourself.

    *** The apache utilities tend to be written in C, not perl, so we probably won't help you with that, either.



    --chargrill 
    s**lil*;  $*=join'',sort split q**;  s;.*;grr; &&s+(.(.)).+$2$1+; $; =
qq-$_-;s,.*,ahc,;$,.=chop for split q,,,reverse;print for($,,$;,$*,$/)

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