thanks for the help. i will check them outright.
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jack Barnett wrote:
>
> What you probably want is
> http://cpan.org/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Apache-AuthCookie-2.011.tar.gz
>
> It is kinda tricky to use (ie. make sure you have a couple pots of coffee
> ready), but it will allow you to create a "custom" form (though html) that
> authenications it's self with apache and passes back a session key.
>
> For example say you have directory /hidden_files, that only user "bob" can
> view. Create a form and cgi using this, bob logs in, now bob can download
> his files without getting that "pop-up" username/password box.
>
> You might want to take a look at:
>
> http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-category/15_World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_C
> GI/Apache/
>
> they have a lot of good modules there, if fact I bet your could hack
> something like AuthCookie with like radius auth or ldap auth apache modules,
> that would be kinda neat.. All these modules are for Perl.
>
> Anyways, hope that helps.
> Jack
>
>
> >
> > I am developing an application in which the users have to login thru a cgi
> > script. onced logged they need to download certain files wherein i have
> > placed htaccess file(for security). This brings up the authorization
> > windows and the users have to again login. This causes redundancy.
> > Is there any procedure wherein i can authenticate the user directly thru
> > the cgi script using the htaccess file but without the authorization
> > window.
> > one way to do this is using a url like
> > http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > but this shows the password in the url. is there some way i can hide this
> > password from the url.
> > Thankx.
> >
>
