asynchronous perl authentication!?

[_spitFIRE]

Hi All,
  I have written a simple perl module (using apache authcookie) for
authenticating users. However, whenever the user types a wrong password,
the entire page refreshes. Is it possible to do a ajax style authentication
here??? I'm sorry if my understanding is seriously flawed (I'm still
learning!). I would basically like to stop the entire page getting
refreshed and have the normal ajax style login here; is that possible?
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