yes its pretty easy one to do,
btw:
i first found out how by investigating the Apache::AuthCookie code
here is the meat of the matter
send something like this to the $r->subprocess_env
{the name im using is the same as authcookie's with the 2 added}
$r->subprocess_env('AuthCookieReason2', 'username invalid!');
then in your login.cgi {or handler or w.h.y.}
you can do this:
my $error=$r->prev->subprocess_env('AuthCookieReason2')
||$r->prev->subprocess_env('AuthCookieReason') ;
or use 'defined' or w.h.y.
then you can place $error wherever you please
hope that helps
simran wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I am having some trouble getting Apache::AuthCookie (version 3 which i
> believe is the latest version) to do what want:
>
>
>
> What i want is:
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>
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> * To be able to give the user a reson if login fails
>
> - eg reason: * "No such username"
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> * "Your password was incorrect"
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>
>
> Has anyone else come across the same requirement/issue, and how have
> you solved it?
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>
>
> It seems like a difficult one to solve (in a clean way) as the only
> way i can think of doing it is either setting
>
> another cookie (with the auth failure reason) or adding to the URL
> query parameters and then reading them
>
> when displaying the login page...
>
>
>
> simran.
>
