Apache::Authen?
As for your method, 401 username password stuff is always accessible via:
$ENV{AUTHORIZATION}
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ariel Manzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 09:09
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Help writting a module for Apache.
>
>
> Hi..
>
> I need Apache to do this: always ask for basic
> authentication, and then
> accept any conbination of username/password as correct, and set an
> enviroment variable with the password sent on the request, so I can
> retrieve that on a CGI script, and do the real authentication there.
> I couldn't find a way to do that with the 'standard' apache
> modules, so I
> have to write one, and I have some questions:
>
> - is that any module that alredy does that? :)
> - Can anyone point me to a "real life" example, or guide, on
> how to write
> and install a module using mod_perl? I use perl a lot, but I
> could find
> "easy" documentation on how to write modules (I don't want to
> read a _huge_
> man page for this simple task)
>
> Can anyone help? Thanks!!
>
> Bye..
>
> Ariel.
>
