err, never mind, i'm thinking of self-written (eg, not standard http
authentication) authentication routines. d'oh. ignore that post.

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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Nate Carlson wrote:

> You could set a cookie with the username and read the cookie when the user
> goes to the post section. Or, if you don't like cookies, you could put the
> username as a hidden field to a form and read that field when you generate
> the post page. These are the two easiest ways off the top of my head, but
> there are probably better (and/or easier and/or other) ways.
> 
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> Nate Carlson
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> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jim Tay wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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.)
> > 
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Jim
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