The script is inside a password protected directory, so if I can access the
script, it means I sent a correct username and password (right?). The
"AUTHORIZATION" key inside %ENV doesn't exist.. There is a
$ENV{'AUTH_TYPE'}, it contains "basic".. I tested it on apache 1.3.6 and
1.3.3..
At 16:16 12/06/2000 -0400, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>Then you haven't gotten a username and password back, you should get
>basic authinfo
>
>Where authinfo is a b64 encoded string that is
>username:password
>> Are you sure? I tryed $ENV{AUTHORIZATION} in normal cgi scripts and in
>> Apache::Registry and the variable is empty..
>>
>> How do I use that module?
>>
>> At 16:00 12/06/2000 -0400, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>> >Apache::Authen?
>> >
>> >As for your method, 401 username password stuff is always
>> accessible via:
>> >$ENV{AUTHORIZATION}
>> >
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>>
