I'm a fairly new monk, and still very much a Perl newbie, so this may be obvious, but I'm throwing it out anyway.

One of my current projects involves a site where I have a number of directorys that are restricted via Apache's BasicAuth, and I'm trying to create a form that will allow access to the sites in these directories without having the popup window come up for entering the Username and Password. What I want to know is, Is there a way to send a 401 header with the Username and Password in it with CGI.pm ?

I originally tried it with a redirect putting the username and password into the URL in the form 'http://username:password@host.domain.tld/directory/' , which worked fine when used with Netscape, but IE still brings up the Auth box. You can type the URL into the location bar in IE and hit enter and it works, which puzzles me.

Could any monks give me a hand here ?

In reply to Passing a 401 header with CGI.pm ? by mr_roboto

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