On 12/7/05 9:25 PM, "sean@xxxxxxxxxx" <sean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It was thus said that the Great Joshua Slive once stated: >> >> On 12/7/05, Senthil Nathan <rsennat@xxxxxxxxx> 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. See here as a start. http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/RequestRec.html#C_user_ Also, this page is useful for mod_perl 2.0 related API issues. http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/index.html Sean > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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