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Your technique worked great! I guess there's a param called POSTDATA that contains what I need. I've written a client and a server that seem to be talking to each other.

Now I need to perform basic HTTP authentication. Any pointers there?

dan shahin

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Re^5: CGI and web services
by spatterson (Pilgrim) on Jan 30, 2007 at 13:23 UTC
    So you need to fetch a URL that uses a username & password? LWP::UserAgent and WWW::Mechanize can both handle this.
    just another cpan module author
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Re^5: CGI and web services
by EvanK (Chaplain) on Jan 30, 2007 at 17:11 UTC
    Now I need to perform basic HTTP authentication. Any pointers there?
    That depends, what is the source of the usernames/passwords? Some kind of local database you control, or do you authenticate them through google?

    Addendum: for those monks (ie: me) who dont usually care to go looking for proprietary API docs, it would help to include a link to them :)

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      it's my own username and password sent back to me from google. I'm trying to access the Authorization header but it seems to have been stripped by the time it gets to my script. Any tips?

      dan shahin

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        In that case, you could probably just let Apache handle the authentication by using an htaccess file in the directory containing your script. I believe that should work, unless I'm missing something.

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