Then you haven't gotten a username and password back, you should get
basic authinfo
Where authinfo is a b64 encoded string that is
username:password
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ariel Manzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 09:42
> To: Jerrad Pierce; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Help writting a module for Apache.
>
>
> Are you sure? I tryed $ENV{AUTHORIZATION} in normal cgi scripts and in
> Apache::Registry and the variable is empty..
>
> How do I use that module?
>
> At 16:00 12/06/2000 -0400, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> >Apache::Authen?
> >
> >As for your method, 401 username password stuff is always
> accessible via:
> >$ENV{AUTHORIZATION}
> >
> > o _
> > /|/ | Jerrad Pierce \ | __|_ _|
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> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ariel Manzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 09:09
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: Help writting a module for Apache.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi..
> >>
> >> I need Apache to do this: always ask for basic
> >> authentication, and then
> >> accept any conbination of username/password as correct, and set an
> >> enviroment variable with the password sent on the request, so I can
> >> retrieve that on a CGI script, and do the real
> authentication there.
> >> I couldn't find a way to do that with the 'standard' apache
> >> modules, so I
> >> have to write one, and I have some questions:
> >>
> >> - is that any module that alredy does that? :)
> >> - Can anyone point me to a "real life" example, or guide, on
> >> how to write
> >> and install a module using mod_perl? I use perl a lot, but I
> >> could find
> >> "easy" documentation on how to write modules (I don't want to
> >> read a _huge_
> >> man page for this simple task)
> >>
> >> Can anyone help? Thanks!!
> >>
> >> Bye..
> >>
> >> Ariel.
> >>
>
