thanks to everyone, Geoff's post made me re-examine AuthCookie and I realised I wasn't supposed to use the get_basic_auth_pw method at all.
Thanks I understand whats going on now. Cheers Marty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lupe Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "modperl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: Re: Daft question - preventing the username password box from appearing. > On Tuesday, 2002-10-01 at 14:16:47 +0100, Martin Moss wrote: > > > I do not wish to have the prompt box appear, I want to have a dynamically > > produced login form which when submitted carries out the users previous > > command (I have an authentication system which 'times out' a user) > > You can't in mod_perl. When you use Basic Authentication, the *browser* > pops up the "prompt box". To change this, you have to ditch Basic Auth > and implement something else. > > You best start by looking at the various "auth" packages in Apache and > those in in Perl (Apache::.*Auth). Then consider doing this in > Javascript or in HTML. > > HTH, > Lupe Christoph > -- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | > | Big Misunderstandings #6398: The Titanic was not supposed to be | > | unsinkable. The designer had a speech impediment. He said: "I have | > | thith great unthinkable conthept ..." | >
