I'd suggest in "Modern Perl" you'd want to create some kind of persistent web
service to replace the "validator.cgi" using Dancer (or some other
$WEB_FRAMEWORK)
A really simple one would be something like
https://gist.github.com/3177150
On the front side you could have another Dancer app that shows the form - a
really concise example is here in my Dancer tutorial at line 83
https://bitbucket.org/mrallen1/dancr/src/7ca51c18f350/dancr.pl#cl-83
And instead of using the code that's in that sub, you could simple do something
like
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(
'POST',
'http://localhost:5000/auth',
{
username => params->{username},
password => md5_hex(params->{'password'}
}
);
my $response = $ua->request($req)
if ( $response->is_success ) {
# in like flynn
# do stuff here
} else {
# "not authorized"
}
If you want to get ridiculously fancy, you could check out something like
AnyEvent::HTTP to make asynchronous auth requests.[1]
--Mark
[1] But you might not want to given that the AnyEvent learning curve can feel
steep and the author of AnyEvent is kind of a jerkface at times.
________________________________
From: lee latham <[email protected]>
To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [pm-h] Is this possible?
Fraser,
I think you just need to use the CGI module.
You'll need some notion of a session, as well.
Lee
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Fraser Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Using LWP and HTTP-Request can I do this all in the same file?
>
> Collect some some form data such as User Name and Password using a form.
>
> Open a persistent connection to a validator.cgi file on the server and
> receive the results.
>
> Reset the display to show the consequence of either success of failure.
>
> It appears to me that after the form is run, using PERL is no longer
> possible. So can JavaScript execute the necessary calls to the validator.cgi
> file? Or can HTTP-Request-Form do this?
>
> Did I make sense?
>
> Fraser
>
>
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