Re: How to redirect headers in Perl?

From: Crazy Monkey (wlin98004_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/11/04


Date: 11 Mar 2004 14:29:20 -0800


> Well. I was able to "jam" the cookie setting into the header and it
> did not solve my problem. I used a tool to look at the request and
> the responses. I see that the cookie is set properly. What I lack is
> the the authorization line? When I hit the secure site directly and
> login properly, I see the following line been sent to the server in
> the header on almost all of the my requests. By the way, the login is
> not a web page login, but a Realm login (Windows Pop-up box).
>
> Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I used the authorization_basic( $user, $password ) in my Perl code,
> but the authentication is not sticking. It works for the page that I
> am fetching through the Perl. By the way, the Perl page is located on
> a web server. It is not on the client machine.
>

There are times, you have to cut your losses. After spent two days on
this, we decided NOT to use the autologin feature. Instead, we are
going to let user authenticate themselves.

If someone has an idea on how to do windows Basic authentication on a
server and make it stick on a client, I am still interested for future
reference.

Crazy Monkey



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