On Mon, Jul 19, 1999, Jim Tay wrote:
> I'm not sure if this question should be asked in this forum, but here
> goes anyways:
>
> I have a protected discussion forum which users must login to access.
> Once they've logged in, I'd like to allow them to post an article
> without asking them for their name again, ie. take their authentication
> id and use that as the author name instead of prompting for author
> name. Is there some way to do this? (I'm using Perl for the discussion
> board.)
That's just a matter of reading the standard CGI/1.1 environment variables in
your Perl CGI scripts. Look inside the CGI/1.1 specification for details.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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