Daemon with cookies based authentication

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi
is it possible to make a server with cookies based authentication ?

I will be using IO::Socket to accept connections and I need some kind of authentication system so I can force the user login, before processing actions.

Your help is highly appreciated.

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Re: Daemon with cookies based authentication by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2010 at 04:09 UTC
is it possible to make a server with cookies based authentication ? You know about cookie-based authentication because you've seen it used. So yeah, I'm pretty sure it can be done.	[reply]
Re: Daemon with cookies based authentication by aquarium (Curate) on Feb 01, 2010 at 05:09 UTC
cookies provide a means of remembering user session, preferences, etc. and don't provide a means of authentication in and of themselves afaik. So cookies are used usually together with HTTP BASIC authentication mechanism, for the authentication itself. That's where you would normally have a .htpasswd access file on a unix/linux web server to setup users and passwords for access, and the web browser shows a simple (unencrypted) login dialog. the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H	[reply]