Cookies are much easier, though they are not necessarially the most secure
for a
variety of reasons, enbedding the username on the web page is not any
secure.
Take a look at the CGI module.
Steve K
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rotaiv [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question - ActivePerl and IIS
>
> At 01/08/2001 11:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >My question: After a user authenticates, can I pass their username to
> >the perl script so I can read it from a variable. I know how to pass
> >parameters from script to script but not from IIS to a script.
>
>
> I had to do a similar thing for my web team. Basically, the user name is
> held in an environmental variable and you just need to read that to
> determine the username. See below for a sample .shtml file and the
> corresponding perl script.
>
> rotaiv
>
>
> [INDEX.SHTML]
>
> <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/userid.cgi" -->
>
>
> [USERID.CGI]
>
> #perl -w
>
> $userid=$ENV{LOGON_USER};
> if($userid eq '') {
> $userid="[blank]"
> }
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n";
> print "<TITLE>\nLogin Example</TITLE>\n";
> print "</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n\n";
> print "Currently logged in as: <B>$userid</B>\n\n";
> print "</BODY>\n</HTML>\n";
>
>
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