Re: Remembering Authentication

[Nicolas MONNET]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Shimon Rura wrote:

|There's no way to use basic authentication (the stuff inside HTTP) from web
|pages... you can't tell a browser "use this form to ask your user for
|passwords". 

#untested code
use URI::Escape;
use CGI;
$q=new CGI;
$l=uri_escape($q->param('login'),'^A-Za-z0-9');
$p=uri_escape($q->param('password'),'^A-Za-z0-9');
print $q->redirect("http://$login:$password@$ENV{HTTP_HOST}/path");