On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:03 AM, zentara wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:29:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill
Stephenson)
wrote:
On Aug 12, 2005, at 2:06 AM, David Dorward wrote:
If a directory is password protected with .htaccess
...
or do you always get the popup box?
Here's what's in the .htaccess file
===========================================
AuthUserFile /home/users/members/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Members"
<LIMIT GET POST>
require valid-user
</LIMIT>
===========================================
How do I point this at a perl cgi script to process the logon?
If I'm understanding your question correctly...........
The server is going to automatically process the login with a popup,
beyond the control of any cgi script. So you are NOT going to bypass
the
server's auth mechanism, and replace it with a Perl script.
Ok, I thought maybe the "AuthType" might have a way to use a perl
script to process logons, but it really doesn't matter now, the client
has decided not to try and fight this issue (big sigh of relief), which
I tried to point out was actually an interface issue, and go with what
works. But if it was possible it would be interesting to play with ;)
The client wanted to use htaccess authentication to process the
user/pass from an html form. I made a script to put the user/pass in
the URL of a redirect command in the html output to the browser. This
worked great for me, I use mozilla based browsers on a mac, Internet
Explorer did not work for the client on his windows box. He finally
opted for a link to the password protected directory.
Thanks again for the help,
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Bill Stephenson
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