when calling a cgi from Internet Explorer (and I imagine other browsers) the browser will pass the web server (apache or IIS or whatever) a number of variables. Some are as follows
GATEWAY_INTERFACE REQUEST_METHOD SCRIPT_NAME QUERY_STRING SERVER_SOFTWARE SERVER_NAME SERVER_PROTOCOL SERVER_PORT HTTP_USER_AGENT HTTP_ACCEPT PATH_INFO PATH_TRANSLATED REMOTE_HOST REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_USER REMOTE_IDENT AUTH_TYPE CONTENT_TYPE CONTENT_LENGTH I mentioned IE because it gives the NT Username as REMOTE_USER Jason Weir -----Original Message----- From: Ailes, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:09 PM To: 'Weir, Jason - Contractor' Subject: RE: User validation you mean Internet Information Server? or Internet Explorer? Kevin Ailes Administrator OTTO Engineering > -----Original Message----- > From: Weir, Jason - Contractor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:39 PM > To: 'Ailes, Kevin' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: User validation > > IE does it has a USERNAME variable which is passed to the CGI script as > one > of the defualt CGI variables... Not sure about Netscape.. > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ailes, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:37 PM > To: Perl-win32-admin list (E-mail) > Subject: User validation > > > I am going to be building an interface via perl through an apache web > server > to a mysql database. > > I want to be able to get the user's "NT Username" without having to prompt > the user for any info. > > Is this even possible or does the browser not have a clue what user is > running it? > > I have been hacking/slashing out some automation for a long time with > perl, > but have never attempted to figure out info about who the user is on the > other end of the connection.(we had a small network, but it is now big > enough that I should start worrying about a little security, but I don't > want to burden the user with another password to remember...) > > Thanks for any responses, > > Kevin Ailes > Administrator > OTTO Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-admin _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-admin
