Hi there, On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Charlie Smith wrote:
> Guess I'm talking to myself on this one. Maybe the wrong list... :) > I need to grab the user's username and password The facilities offered by mod_perl are more concerned with providing a general-purpose facility to assist Apache in serving http requests than they are with the implementation of any authentication mechanism. To authenticate the user you are free to do whatever you want to do, but be warned that to pay anything other than lip-service to the issue is not trivial. Many mechanisms exist, and before you invent yet another wheel you might find it useful to browse the CPAN archives to see what is available already. There are several books listed on the mod_perl site which will help you with this too. The authors read this List and will probably chime in with chapter references - I'm sorry, my copies of the books are at home, and I'm a long way from home. Apache has its own 'basic authentication' which nobody really uses. See the Apache documentation and almost any book on Apache for details. 73, Ged. -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
