Thanks c, but...

I don't have apache::htpasswd module installed, and as I said above, can't install it. Its not really the crux of the problem anyway, as I can handle parsing the htpasswd file.

What really concerns me is how to capture the username and password entered in the authentication dialog box. I'll explain in a bit more depth:

I activate an authentication dialog box by sending the following HTTP headers, using CGI.pm:

print $query->header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Private"'),
      $query->header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorised');

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Now, if I were using PHP (!), the user name and password would be stored in $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PW, which I would then try to match against the htpasswd file.

Also, I use these aforementioned variables in PHP with the isset() function to determine whether the user has logged in yet.

Anything php can do, Perl can do better?.

Of course a proper implementation of htaccess security would not use isset(), but would send some sort of success message back to the client browser, causing the $REMOTE_USER environment variable to be set. But now I am out of my depth.

Any suggestions, O wise ones?

*~-}hotyopa{-~*

In reply to Re: Re: Mimicking htaccess user authentication by hotyopa
in thread Mimicking htaccess user authentication by hotyopa

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