On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:58:40AM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> I'm assuming that you're doing this in an access handler. If
> that's the case, set up some condition in your module where it figures out
> whether or not the user is authenticated. If the user isn't
> authenticated:
>
> return(AUTH_REQUIRED);
>
> That should do it. I don't think that'll return the error page
> stating that you need access to continue, instead that should pass a
> header (I think two actually) to the browser signaling it to prompt the
> user.
> Another alternative would be to have the user redirected to a
> login page with good old fashion forms. ;) Good luck. --SC
Yes this would be preferable, but I wanted to do this as a mod_perl
understanding exercise.
The required headers to trigger the browser login popup are:
$r->err_header_out('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm="Base de données LNC"');
my ($res, $pw) = $r->get_basic_auth_pw;
and then check for $res and $pw to determine if the user has tried to login
> PS If you're really interested in details of this, check out:
>
> <http://www.modperl.com/book/chapters/ch6.html>
Excellent reference, many thanks for your help!
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