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

How do I use SSL to securely allow users to login to web pages (CGI's)? What modules do I need?

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Re: Perl and SSL
by holygrail (Scribe) on Jun 26, 2001 at 15:48 UTC
    davorg points you in the right direction if you meant to access webpages with your script

    The way I understand your question is that you want visitors to a secure website to run your scripts securely on that site. In that case you don't need any modules at all. The SSL part is taken care of by the webserver (Apache for example)

    Finally, if you want to know more about writing secure Perl scripts, do a supersearch on taint, security or secure CGI

    --HolyGrail
      If you want users to actually "Login" - check out .htaccess (part of apache) or I'm sure there are some other modules out there like mod_auth? that will allow you to authenticate users against a database of usernames and passwords (or against some other list, like NT usernames/passwords, etc... )

      Word up!

      -mr.dunstan
Re: Perl and SSL
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 26, 2001 at 15:03 UTC