It was thus said that the Great Joshua Slive once stated:
>
> On 12/7/05, Senthil Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > my application running on Apache 2 on mod_perl 2 uses htaccess to
> > authenticate. so i need to get the username and the password who is
> > authenticated to login for passing it to a different command in the scrip=
> t.
>
> You should probably ask on the mod_perl list. Normal cgi scripts
> can't do this for security reasons, but mod_perl has access to apache
> internals, so there might be a way.
Well, CGI scripts are passed the authentication method (Basic or Digest)
and the userid in the environment variables:
AUTH_TYPE
REMOTE_USER
What is not passed is the password the user typed.
-spc
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