> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Naaman Musawwir wrote: > > I wanted to know about how this module keeps track of the logged in > > user. We always get the value of user in request_rec strucrure > > (r->user). If we store something manually in this structure that > > vanishes after serving the current request. > > It doesn't. HTTP is stateless. The client keeps track of it and sends > the userid and password in the HTTP request headers with each and every > request. Apache reads it and shoves it in the request_rec.
Thanks. So, how can we keep track of any custom values? Cookies or session. Some useful API to maintain state for that? > > See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html#basic > > Joshua. >
