Re^3: Perl and Apache 1.3

It's a long time ago I used Apache 1.3 (long since switched to Apache 2), but IIRC even Apache 1.3 was able to use a basic authentification and authorisation system which can distinguish between users and the files which they have access to.

Actually, if you allow your users to run a cgi-script which serves the file, what is the difference with allowing them to access that file directly? Or does the script itself run an authentification/authorisation scheme?

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Re^4: Perl and Apache 1.3 by Heffstar (Acolyte) on Oct 13, 2009 at 04:31 UTC
Yes, we do have our own security scheme that's utilized through the scripts so I'm not sure if that will work... but I'm open to suggestions.	[reply]