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". If you want to manage authentication in web pages, you have to
build the whole authentication/session management system yourself. Since
Hi, Throughout my web pages I provide a link for the user to login, which
goes to a username/password check which then forwards the user back to the
original page where he clicked "login". The login link is implemented with:
a
I'd like to be able to tell apache to close off its connection with the
client but leave the script running. An example use would be for the client
to start a time-consuming job on the web server, and let it run without
subjecting them to a spinning wait icon for 10 minutes. Also, and perhaps
I had similar symptoms this summer while trying to build a mod_perl-enabled
apache 1.3.12 on an HP-UX 10.20 box (this was with perl 5.6.0 and mod_perl
probably 1.2.4). I don't think anything useful showed
up in error_log, but I serendipitously found later that the test httpd
*worked* when I ran
Jay, although others have recommended you look at the mod_perl guide and
CGI::Carp, I don't think these are exactly what you're looking for. The
errors you are getting are generated because of 'use strict;' and occur at
compile time; CGI::Carp is capable of redirecting errors to the browser (if
