Norris, Joseph wrote: > Here is the situation: I am on an network of windows boxes with apache > running on one of the boxes. I have my web apps there with perl/mysql etc.. > I want to build a script that will be run in the users login script that > will take the username via $ENV{USERNAME} and build a cookie do a request to > the server so that the cookie will be built on the users box containing the > user's USERNAME, so that I can use cgi->cookie and know who is there. What I > have attempted so far. I have a cookie built on the opening page of my > intranet site. The cookie contains a bogus value. In the login script I had > a script that runs out and finds the cookie file no matter where it is on > the user's disk, slurps it and writes it back out with the $ENV{USERNAME}. I > use all the same delimiters for records etc and the file looks exactly the > same (or so I think) as the original cookie file. However the browser spots > the different fast - won't access the cookie and then trashes even when I > set expire to 01/01/2045. Any and all observations appreciated.
I would just use HTTP basic authentication - they only have to login once and they can have their browser remember the login if they wish (for later instantiations of the browser). -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=162126130 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs