Authentication implementation

[Sergey Ivanyuk]

Hi All.

I'm trying to implement a real simple authentication scheme, where the
login page sets a cookie to the users's browser, and unless the cookie
is set, any request beyond the login page gets redirected to login.
I've tried the PerlTransHandler, but the cookies aren't available to
the handler for some reason.  How is something like this normally
done?  I thought I was on the right track, but apparently that doesn't
seem to be right.  Thanks in advance.