Hi Robe Wearers,

I have just moved to a new web server which for whatever reason doesn't support .htaccess user authentication. But, after reading an article on Zend about User Authentication using PHP, I wondered whether you couldn't do the same thing in Perl - authentication by sending the requisite HTTP headers, checking user environment variables and manually parsing the .htpasswd file

Does anyone think that this is a viable proposition? The Zend article gives me the HTTP headers to send to get the login box, but I'm not sure about where to look to see if someone is logged in or not, and if so where to find their username and password...

(A note: its not my webserver, so I can't install any modules, and its 5.00503, but CGI.pm is installed)

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In reply to Mimicking htaccess user authentication by hotyopa

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